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An 8 page paper looking at three of Hemingway's short stories -- 'Soldier's Home,' 'A Cat in the Rain,' and 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place' -- in terms of their relationship to events and experiences in Hemingway's own life. The writer concludes that his stories from World War I on reflect a deepening despair, and a conviction that life ultimately was without meaning. Bibliography lists two sources.
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File: D0_Hemlife.rtf
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action, it is remarkable that he became a writer at all. And yet he became one of the great names in American literature, primarily due to his uncanny gift for
probing the universality of his own despair, and his development of a uniquely American resolution. After graduating from high school in 1916, Hemingway immediately left for Kansas City to enlist
in the Army, hoping to be sent overseas to fight in World War I. Unfortunately, minor eye damage incurred during his high school sports career was severe enough for the
Army to turn him down. He got a job at the Kansas City Star as a reporter until he was able to convince a Red Cross ambulance unit to take
him on as a driver, and at last he made it to the front in Europe. He was seriously wounded in Italy, and incurred nearly a dozen operations to restore
complete function to his knee, which was now surmounted with an aluminum kneecap. Decorated for bravery (recklessness is probably more like it), he returned to the front and finished out
the war. Psychologically, it is clear that Hemingway never got over his war experiences, which seems to have been a common problem with writers of his generation. John K. Roth
quotes Gertrude Stein as calling Hemingways set "the lost generation" (Roth, 450). Although only a few of his stories and novels actually dealt with battle or military life, the war
clearly severed the connection with his boyhood, just as it destroyed the enormous sense of complacency which was the nineteenth centurys legacy to the twentieth. After the war, nothing would
ever seem quite so stable again. This can be seen in Hemingways short story "Soldiers Home." Harold Krebs has just returned from fighting in World War I, and goes
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