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Escape to Nature in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Big Two-Hearted River” Ernest Hemingway is a world-known author of a number of anti-war novels and also the Nobel price winner for his “Old Man and the Sea”. However, he wrote many other short stories, which are certainly not of a lower quality and I would suggest that they are even better. Most of his short stories are linked together by the character of Nick Adams. ... In Slovakia, In Our Time have not been published yet, but Nick Adams stories were published separately as parts of other collections of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. ... They all have a lot to say to today’s reader but there is especially one that had a great impact on me and that was “Big Two-Hearted River”. “Big Two-Hearted River” was first published in 1925 and it was placed at the end as a last story in In Our Time Collection. This story portrays Nick as a war veteran coming for a fishing trip to Northern Michigan at Two-Hearted River. Surely, it is not only fishing story. In my essay I am going to examine more closely Nick’s reasons for coming for this trip and analyze the effect that nature and its phenomena had on him. ... Generally it is known that Ernest Hemingway put many autobiographical features into his works. ... Phillip Young agrees on this fact and suggests that in this short story “Hemingway identified too closely with Nick and began writing autobiography rather than fiction. ... There is also the evidence that Hemingway was at the Two-Hearted River before, he himself came to Seney in 1919 together with his two friends to recover from a wound he suffered while in Italy. (Jobst) Hemingway loved fishing and this was probably the main reason for the idea of this story. Nick Adams comes to fish at the Two-Hearted River in Northern Michigan to escape from the problems and wounds after the war. He sees the nature as a place where he can recover from terrible memories he had to experience in war and find the strength to carry on. ... It is not actually mentioned in the text throughout the whole story. ... Hannum, Hemingway in his “Art of the Short Story” stated that “boys coming home from the war in Nick’s condition could not suffer that it be mentioned in their presence. ... It is his aim because he wants his readers to feel the presence of nature. ... Hemingway paints the images of nature and Nick’s actions to emphasize the meaning and to become a active participant in the story. ... Hemingway implies here that “rieka tam ostala” (Hemingway 111) I understand this as if Hemingway wanted to assure Nick that even though many things have been destroyed, life still goes on as the river flowing at its own speed. |
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