Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Ernest Hemingway / Gender Relations in His Short Stories. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 7 page paper analyzing the reason for the lack of communication between the sexes in three of Hemingway's stories: 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,' 'Hills Like White Elephants,' and 'The End of Something.' The paper concludes that the Hemingway code does not give much room for softness, sensitivity, and self-articulation. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
Page Count:
7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Hemgen.doc
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
in his novels and short stories. But a darker side was expressed there too, revolving around his less-than-satisfactory experiences with women. In this paper we will look at three stories
-- "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "The End of Something", to determine the reason for this ongoing tension between the sexes. In the
first scene of "The Short Happy Life," Francis Macomber asks the safari guide, Wilson, whether he will have lime juice or lemon squash, and Wilson tells him hell have a
gimlet. Macombers wife Margot quickly seconds this; shell have one too -- she "[need]s something." She certainly does. What she needs, we will find out very soon, is a manly
husband. Macomber, by virtue of his cowardice in running from the lion, does not feel he is manly, and both Margot and Wilson implicitly agree. Wilsons choice of a gimlet
-- a boring-tool -- is something of a phallic reference, and it is this that Margot needs, rather than a wimpy lemon squash. On page one Hemingway has already nailed
down the conflict in the story. It is not only between Margot and Francis, or between Francis and Wilson; it is between Francis Macomber and himself. Margot recognizes, as
even Hemingway himself consciously does not, that "blowing things heads off" is not the way to prove a mans masculinity. "What importance is there to whether Francis is any good
at killing lions? Thats not his trade. Thats Mr. Wilsons trade. Mr. Wilson is really very impressive killing anything. You do kill anything, dont you?" (Hemingway, p. 8). To those
critics who think that Margot admires Wilson because of his manly hunting prowess -- in other words, that Margot buys into the Hemingway mystique -- one merely has to point
...