Re: More Hemmingway
Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:36:00 -0700 (PDT)
Hemmingway is always enjoyable to study. My favorite
Hemingway story is "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and I
also like the Nick Adams stories. I also find
similarities between Salinger and Hemingway. I read A
Farewell To Arms last year and I liked it, but I
thought that Catherine(I think that's her name) was
some what a weak character although I felt that her
death scene did give justice to her character. It's
sounds like you have a great English class.
-Liz Friedman
--- cinnimon@vvm.com wrote:
> In my English class we have been reading a great
> deal of Hemmingway lately. Well, I
> will have read about 15 works of his by the end of
> next month (these including the
> Nick Adams stories, _A Farewell to Arms_, _Old Man
> and the Sea_ and lots of other
> works). I guess by the time I finish reading these
> works, according to my teacher at
> least, my classmates and myself will be minor
> 'Hemmingway Scholars'! One of the first
> stories we read was "Fathers and Sons", which I
> found thoroughly enjoyable. One of my
> other favorite short stories of his is "My Old Man".
> Has anyone else read this? It's
> a great story!
> Well, as I was reading _A Farewell to Arms_ I
> recognized one particular parallel
> between Hemmingway and Salinger's writing - this
> being the "Stream of Consciousness"
> style of narration. This is when the narrator
> expresses his mind without any editing
> - going from one idea to another without any
> distinction. Has anyone else noticed
> this? Hemmingway, from what I can tell, uses this
> 'device' throughout most of his
> works, and to me, this (at least partially) rings
> true for Salinger as well. Agree?
> Disagree? Any thoughts?
> ~Sarah
>
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