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A 5 page paper which considers how the issues Hemingway addressed in his 1937 novel are still relevant today. No additional sources are used.
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Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929). He had traveled the world, an expatriate that had once been the toast of Parisian caf? society, but when Hemingway returned
to his native America in the early 1930s and discovered the region between South Florida and Cuba, the restless globetrotter felt he finally found the paradise he had long been
searching for. When the man friends referred to as Papa arrived there in the early 1930s, Miami was already becoming known as the Capital of the Caribbean. This
was the height of the Great Depression, and people in increasing numbers - both immigrants as well as down on their luck Americans - descended in hopes of a better
life. The sights and the people Hemingway encountered during this desperate time formed the basis for his novel, To Have and Have Not, first published in 1937. Although
Hemingway wrote this to fulfill a contractual obligation and later declared it to be his worst novels, contemporary opinions do not share this view. The issues this insightful novel
tackles are still as relevant today as they were back in the 1930s. The novels protagonist, Harry Morgan, is a sailor who wants nothing more than to earn a decent
living to provide for his wife Marie and their three daughters. He transports visitors on his small fishing craft, but when a trio of Cuban radicals demands his services,
he initially agrees and then changes his mind when he fears the American government will learn he was harboring fugitives and confiscate his boat. After seeing the three young
men brutally murdered in the street, Harry admitted, "The whole thing made me feel pretty bad" (Hemingway, 1937, p. 8). But while he may have secretly sympathized with the
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