Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

The works of Ernest Hemingway have undergone a recurring pattern where they are universally praised at one moment, and are bashed at the next. Although this is evident, and frankly not without its justifications, the works of Hemingway are in fact of some merit. Living a lifetime without engaging oneself in a text by Hemingway would be a loss. As seen through texts such as “The Old Man and the Sea” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, we are able to discover the value of Hemingway and his creative writing style that allows meaning to bleed through in each line. These unique characteristics make a quick (or lengthy) read of Hemingway worthwhile.

The time that one would spend prying at a Hemingway text would be well spent simply because of the innovative

Throughout Hemingway's works, he tends to stick to a certain range of themes, all having to do with fulfillment, death, or being lost. Although these seem like run of the mill themes for a novel, Hemingway takes a spin on them that we as readers don’t seem coming. We’re not reading about how doing what you’re passionate about will leave you fulfilled, but about how maybe fulfillment doesn’t last forever and the sensation can be lost as quick as it can be found: “My big fish must be somewhere”. In “The Old Man and the Sea”, we can see that old age doesn’t necessarily lead to fulfillment, and that we still may be searching for this sense of fulfillment even if we are doing the things that we love. These aren’t generic topics, and quite frankly they were very controversial points to be making during this time period. Now, as we live in a more free-thinking society, we are able to accept some of these ideas without much thought. But as we being to analyze the context in which these novels were written we can truly appreciate the risks that Hemingway was taking. He was at the forefront of more open schools of thought (in some ways more than others), and he wasn’t afraid of the consequences that his novels might have on society at that time. Although these themes are easier to process now, when we take a step back we can recognize the unique perspective that Hemingway had on the