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This 4-page paper discusses the major themes of Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories, "In Our Time." The main stories focused on include "Indian Camp," "Cat in the Rain," "The Big-Hearted River," and "The End of Things." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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generic form" (Kummings 12). The novel has gone under a lot of different titles including a "fragmentary novel," a "short story miscellany," a "short story cycle" and even a "literary
hybrid," and for good reason (Kummings 12). These are very much fragmentary stories, but as with much of Hemmingways work, they tend to make up a very symbolic whole. The
main framework of "In Our Time" is focused around Hemmingways experience as a journalist during the first World War (Shafer). He tells these stories through the character of "Nick Adams,"
a man who "grows up" throughout the process of this book. Nick, himself, doesnt have much of a character but rather, is the conduit, the narrator, of what goes on
around him. But while Hemingway, himself, considered that the pieces he wrote had a strong unity, some of Hemmingways critics have claimed
that there is a definite lack of cohesiveness when it comes to this book (Kummings 12). Others have criticized Hemmingways works in general (and this one in particular) as focusing
"on violence and machismo" (Shafer). Is this true? Well find out here. The stories well focus on specifically are "Indian Camp," "The
End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than analyze them, and determine how they fit into
a coherent whole. The interesting factor about each of these stories is that Hemmingway tends to add heavy doses of masculinity
throughout them. For example, in "Indian Camp," which deals with a primarily feminine theme of childbirth, Hemingway tends to turn this into a thoroughly masculine experience by discussing it from
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