Hemingway :: Essays Papers

HemmingwayHemingway Hero is the foundation for the main charater in all of Hemingways stories. The Hemingway Hero is always a man, more so, he is a rough, woodsy type a real mans-man. He drinks, he hunts, and he acts first then asks questions later. He goes from one woman to a nonher, and women are thoroughly for little more than reproduction. (Shoemaker) He has hopes, dreams, convictions and beliefes which he strictly follows, but he does not talk about them. This is one great example of the Hemingway Hero being a man How much did you suffer? Plenty, replied the old man. (Ernest Hemingway, Old Man and The Sea 126.) This conversation took place after the old man had been fighting a twelve hundred pound marlin for three days with little drink and only raw fish to eat. This pattern of the Hemingway Hero is consistent in all of Hemingways writings. Santiago, from The Old Man and the Sea, has a striking similarity to each of the injured soldiers in In Another sphere. All of these men are uplifted and it is shown in the soldiers thoughts about his medals (Adventures in American Literature 649) and in Santiagos belief that a man can be destroyed, but not defeated which is also major theme in many of Hemingways writings. However, the hero varies from story to story in their realism. In In Another Country the characters display a more human quality of emotion, where as Santiago seems to have a super-human restraint and is always stoic.Hemingway uses most e precise kind of literary device imaginable in his writing. One major item is the use of understatement (Shoemaker), the quote in the second paragraph is an excellent example as is It is very difficult, he said I am utterly unable to resign myself, (Adventures in American Literature, 651.) This quote is from an injured soldier morning the loss of his latterly wed bride.