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A 4 page paper which examines the story’s depiction of the protagonist Harry’s failures and also considers his death and its symbolism. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the critical expectations of others, but never achieved the towering goals he had established for himself. Hemingway wanted to be the quintessential man of the world and believed his
art should be the perfect embodiment of his talent. He wanted to excel at everything he attempted whether it was hunting, fishing, bullfighting, boxing, or writing. But Hemingway
was prone to depression and often filled with self-doubts that he was squandering his gifts by globetrotting, womanizing, and drinking to excess. All of his masculine pursuits were not
enough to erase those gnawing fears that he would never become the man he truly wanted to be. Perhaps the protagonist that
was most closely modeled after Ernest Hemingway was Harry in the short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" that was first published in Esquire magazine in August 1936 (Tyler 97).
Harry is a writer who is trapped in a loveless marriage to a wealthy socialite Helen who is also his literary benefactor (again not unlike the real Hemingway). He
and his wife have taken an African safari as a way to cure his latest writers block and in a desperate attempt to salvage their relationship. When a scratch
on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, Harry looks back on his life in a series of delirious flashbacks. As the
opening passage of the story informs the reader, in a kind of mini travelogue, Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, and its western summit was referred to as "the
Masai Ngaje Ngai, the House of God" (Hemingway 1687). This massive peak is symbolic of the ascension into heaven as well as the lofty ambition and high objectives Harry
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