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    Short Stories Fiction

    In Our Time
    Author Year Published Original Language
    Ernest Hemingway 1925 English

    THEMES

    Combat in Times Set in the early 20th century, In Our Time provides glimpses of men
    at war: in the trenches, in the bullfighting arena, and against their
    of War & Peace wives and mothers. The 17 stories and vignettes depict the universal
    struggle of facing death with courage.

    Death Birth Combat

    Men face inevitable death As doctors or husbands, men In war or bullfighting, a man
    and horror with courage or offer strength during painful, owes his worthy opponent
    cowardice. frightening birth. a worthy death.

    Author Main Characters

    Nick Adams

    Midwestern sportsman, wounded


    veteran, drinker, writer, and hunter;
    grows up fast and transforms on the
    World War I battlefields

    Hubert Elliot
    ERNEST HEMINGWAY
    1899–1961 Virginal, awkward Harvard law
    student; writes long poems in France
    At age 18 Hemingway tried
    and lets himself be fooled into an
    to enlist to fight in World War I
    unhappy marriage
    but was rejected for vision
    problems. Hemingway served
    as a Red Cross ambulance
    driver in Italy instead. Injured
    Harold Krebs
    while serving chocolate to
    soldiers, Hemingway fell in love World War I soldier returning home
    with his nurse, who rejected too late to get a hero’s welcome and
    him. The author’s experiences suffering from “shell shock”; realizes
    of war and unrequited love he cannot adjust to small-town life
    inspired much of In Our Time.

    Symbols

    Bullfighting Camping Women

    Symbolizes confrontation with Represents retreat from Symbolize men’s ambivalence


    death made beautiful by ritual society into a warrior’s life about returning to society

    n the early morning on the lake ...


    he felt quite sure that he would never die.
    Narrator, Indian Camp

    Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica, NobelPrize.org, Poetry Foundation

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