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Pragmatism In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

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they had a new flight in a de Haviland Rapide. Heading to Uganda the airplane scarcely come down the earth earlier hurtling and catching fire. Finding the door jammed, Hemingway used his head as a battering ram, butted the door twice and got out. He enjoyed being a classic example of superman pragmatism, but it nearly killed him. The smash had wounded Hemingway more than most would recognize. In this accident Hemingway’s liver, spleen and right kidney were ruptured, his right arm and shoulder were disrupted, two discs of his backbone were broken, his head was fractured, his hearing and vision were damaged, his head, arms, and face were seared by the fires of the aircraft, and his muscle was paralyzed by compressed spinal column on the iliac nerve. However he lived the smashes and stayed a live to see his own early tributes, his wounds changed short his lifetime in an unhurried and hurting way. Hemingway 's creative writing can be seen as an adaptive defensive strategy for dealing with disorder moods and suicidal impulses. Baker wrote that for Hemingway, “the story achedto be told” (Baker, 1969, 68). Hemingway may have told certain stories in order to easethe aches that life started inside him.In A Farewell to Arms (1929), he tells the story of a young American man, Fredrick Henry, who is wounded in the leg while servingin World War I and then falls in love with an American Red Cross nurse while he was in hospital.“Henry is wounded in the same manner and in the same
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