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A 5 page paper which argues why this story is most important in understanding Nick’s character and experiences. No additional sources are used.
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Gregory, October 2001 -- properly! Ernest Hemingway spent most of his celebrated literary career cultivating a larger-than-life
heroic persona. However, there was another side to his character that the man forever known as "Papa" kept well hidden, that of an insecure, wounded product of a traumatic
childhood, who sought to mask his pain with macho posturing and a swaggering bravado. Out of all the protagonists he painstakingly described in his novels and short stories, the
one which came closest to the real Ernest Hemingway was one of his earliest creations, Nick Adams. Nicks trials and tribulations were featured in a series of "coming of
age" short stories, which were assembled in the compilation, In Our Time, originally published in 1930. In Our Time featured fourteen short stories which chronicled Nick Adams evolution from
boy to man. Nick Adams served as Hemingways literary alter-ego, a man who was on a personal quest to embody his definition of a macho hero, the man who
could stoically overcome any obstacle without registering any outward emotion. The first offering, "Indian Camp," is a story which describes Nick accompanying his physician father to perform a Caesarean on
a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, matter of fact terms, telling his son, "Listen to me. What she is going through is
called being in labor. The baby wants to be born and she wants it to be born. All her muscles are trying to get the baby born.
That is what is happening when she screams" (16). The unsettling quiet of the labor is disrupted by the womans desperate cries of anguish. There is, in these
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