The purpose of this study is to examine the process of development of the Hemingway's hero in Hemingway's major works including In Our Time, which is an influential collection of short stories on subjects and characters of Hemingway's novels.
In chap...
The purpose of this study is to examine the process of development of the Hemingway's hero in Hemingway's major works including In Our Time, which is an influential collection of short stories on subjects and characters of Hemingway's novels.
In chapter 1, I described the biographical correlation between the Hero and the Author, Hemingway because the process of development of the Hemingway's hero is closely connected with the story of Hemingway's own life.
In Chapter 2, if there is any attempt in Hemingway to enforce an idea it must be the one that everyone has code to which he must adhere. In this regard, the strongest part of the hero's code is his need to "hold tight" particularly with regard to sudden and individual death.
In chapter 3 and 4, the protagonist, Nick Adams, appears as the basis for the hero in the early works and Nick has his first experience with death in the story of "Indian Camp." In addition, Nick's suffering at war makes him have "separate peace" with war and it completes the reversal, the turn-away from humanity as he breaks with society. So the influence of war on Nick Adams functions as an important factor in the Hero's process of development.
In Chapter 5, an abrupt switch in the philosophy of the heroes comes. That is, the later heroes begin to break from the world of war and evil, and pursue close human relationship. For example, Harry Morgan learns it in To Have And Have Not and Robert Jordan carries it out in For Whom The Bell Tolls. The old man Santiago verifies it in The Old Man And The Sea.
In conclusion, the process of development of the Hemingway's hero is done on the part of Nick Adams and completed by Santiago's spiritual renewal.