… by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic about the love story of a nurse and a war ridden soldier. The story starts as Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army. He meets his future love in the hospital that he gets put in for various reasons.…

… by Ernest Hemingway, is a typical love story. A Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine Barkley. Their love affair must survive the obstacles of World War I. The background…

… spare, and journalistic. These are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations…

… whose experiences of war and love lead to tragedy. The novel centers on the aspirations of a naïve young man named Frederick Henry. He is a “Hemingway Hero”, a young man who is alone, hurt emotionally, good looking, and cut off from society. This…

… Role Playing in A Farewell to Arms" John Stubbs' essay is an examination of the defense which he believes Henry and Catherine use to protect themselves from the discovery of their insignificance and "powerlessness...in a world indifferent…

… book is much different than that of The Sun Also Rises. The characters in the book are propelled by outside forces, in this case WWI, where the characters in SAR seemed to have no direction. Frederick's actions are determined by his position until…

… proven him to be one of the most famous American writers in the 1900's. His works have also been some of the most influential of this time. Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinoise in 1899, started his career as a writer as soon…

… O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is used as a tool to convert the unbelieving or unwilling to at least take a look at the old ways of Christian faith. O’Conner, herself being a strong believer in Christianity, probably thought…

… society was drastically changing for the worse. O'Connor's obvious displeasure with society at the time has often been attributed to her Catholic religion, her studies in the social science field, and the fact that the celebrated lifestyles of the elite…

… quite strange. At first, the story began slowly with many details, and suddenly the story changed completely. Although, I didn’t exactly understand what the man meant when he said, “She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there…