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A 10 page research paper that examine three stories by Ernest Hemingway in regards to his concept of masculinity. The stories are "The End of Something," "The Three-Day Blow," and "Cross-Country Snow." The writer argues against the conventional interpretation of these stories, which sees Hemingway as misogynist. Instead, the writer sees these stories as presenting a "coming of age" for a young man that shows how the protagonist is both attracted to and rebelled by the traditional gender role for men. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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"asking for it" by virtue of his "self-parodic machismo; his preoccupation with war, boxing, hunting and bullfighting; his string of divorces; (and) his celebration of the masculine in much of
his writing after 1930" (Ferrero 18). However, while it is true that Hemingways fiction focuses on issues pertaining to masculinity, David Ferrero, and other critics as well,
argue that to regard Hemingway as completely misogynist is a distortion of Hemingways intent. By examining the cultural and psychological meanings of
masculinity portrayed in three Hemingway short stories, it possible to show that Hemingway was fully aware of the socially constructed nature of gender and boldly explored what these social constructs
consisted of from the male perspective (Ferrero 18). Rather than seeing Hemingway as misogynist, it is possible to view Hemingway as simply showing that the boundaries of patriarchy were just
as restrictive for men in their roles as they have been for women -- to whom Hemingway was far more sympathetic than he is generally credited as being. In
the assignment directions for this paper, the student researching this topic writes that, during Hemingways lifetime, there was a "blurring of traditional sex roles that men were both attracted to
and repelled by." This writer disagrees concerning the assumption that there was a "blurring" of sex roles during this period. Hemingway died in 1961, which is well before the social
turmoil of that decade began. The womens movement was barely extent at that point, and certainly throughout the entire decade of the 1950s, the majority of women working during World
War II returned to the home and their traditional role. However, it is possible to see in Hemingways fiction that the traditional masculine role was something that he felt that
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