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Volume: 4th & Issue: 15th (July – September’2016) PP: 125-130 Date: 25-09-2016
A GLIMPSE ON THE SELECT NOVELS/WRITINGS OF ERNEST

HEMINGWAY
By: Mr. V. Jayakumar* and Dr. A. Subramanian**
Authors’ Particulars:
Mr. V. Jayakumar*,
Ph. D. Research Scholar in English,
Marudhamalai Road,
Coimbatore – 641046,
Tamil Nadu,
India.
E-Mail: jayakumar2566@gmail.com
Mobile: 0091 9245777148
Dr. A. Subramanian**
Professor of English,
Faculty of Arts and Science,
Bharath University,
Agharam Road, Selaiyur,
Chennai – 600073,
Tamil Nadu,
India.
E-Mail: manighi@yahoo.co.in
Mobile: 0091 9444842154
Authors’ Introduction: (** is coauthor and Ph. D. Research Guide for *)

Mr. V. Jayakumar* is presently serving as Editor-in-chief of Dr. JK Research
Foudation, Chennai, one of the research publishers of International Journals and books.
Formerly he served as Assistant Professor of English at SAMS College of Engineering and
Technology, #82, Panapakkam, Thiruvallur Dt., Chennai – 601102 in India. So far he has
attended and presented papers in more than 10 International Conferences, Seminars etc. And
he maintains more than 10 research paper publications with ISSN and ISBN.
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Dr. A. Subramanian** is presently serving as Professor of English, Faculty of Arts

and Science, Bharath University, Agharam Road, Selaiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India. So
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Title of the Paper: A GLIMPSE ON THE SELECT NOVELS/WRITINGS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Authors: Mr. V. Jayakumar* and Dr. A. Subramanian**/ Pages: 125-130 / Date of Publication: 25/09/2016
book and two work books with ISBN Numbers (Revised for 4 times) for engineering college
students. He has also published a work book and a guide for polytechnic college students. At
present, he is guiding three research scholars for their Ph. D. He has presented his papers in
four international conferences and one national conference. He presented his guest lectures
on soft skills particularly on the topic self confidence at various colleges. He acted as board
chairman and vice-chairman for English board at Anna University Central Valuation and
revaluation. He has also acted as squad member for Anna university examinations. He has
been also setting question papers for various universities. He has edited various magazines,
calendars etc.
Abstract: village in The Old Man and the
E
rnest Miller Hemingway (July
21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an Sea, Hemingway relied on his personal
American novelist, short story
writer, and journalist. His experiences, friendships and observations
economical and understated
style had a strong influence
for the content of his work. Since
on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure Hemingway’s works reflect interests and
and his public image influenced later generations.
Hemingway produced most of his work between the adventures at different stages of his life,
mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven creating a ranking for his fiction is
novels, six short story collections, and two non-
fiction works. Additional works, including three difficult. However, the following ranks his
novels, four short story collections, and three non-
fiction works, were published posthumously. Many
most broadly acclaimed works and
of his works are considered classics of American comments on their contribution to the
literature.
Hemingway legacy.
Keywords: American novelist, short
story writer, and journalist, 20th-century
fiction etc. 1. The Sun Also Rises (1926):
emingway’s first novel
H
Introduction:
is at the top of my list
E
rnest Hemingway
because it reflects his
created memorable
reliance on his
characters in his short
traditional Midwestern values as he
stories and novels by drawing on real
encountered new experiences and values in
people, parents, friends, and fellow
post-World War I Europe. Using friends
writers, among others. He also drew on
and acquaintances that populated the cafes
real places and events to create settings
along Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris, he
and engaging plots. Whether revisiting the
reveals his concern about the valueless life
Italian front in A Farewell to Arms,
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of these Lost Generation characters and

recounting a Pamplona bull run in The Sun
begins his personal and literary search for
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Also Rises, or depicting a Cuban fishing

meaning in what appears to be a godless

world. In the midst of their heavy drinking had bargained for. The idealistic
and meaningless revelry during a fiesta in Midwesterner joined the war to end all
Spain, Pedro Romero, the matador, wars, ready to display honor and courage,
becomes a hero. He conducts himself with but was blown up in a trench. Then he fell
honor and courage, and it is here we see in love, contemplated marriage and was
the beginnings of what will become the rejected by the woman he loved. His
Hemingway Code. confrontation with death, his subsequent
wound, and his first experience with love
The book also tops my list because
all became catalysts for developing a code
it reveals Hemingway’s courageous
of behavior for facing life’s challenges.
attempt to write in a new and different way
by portraying the bad and the ugly as well A Farewell to Arms was the
as the beautiful. Though The Sun Also fictional result of Hemingway’s
Rises was well received by the critics, it experiences in Italy and initiates what
was not well received by Hemingway’s would become one of the most dominant
acquaintances who saw themselves themes in his novels, the confrontation of
portrayed as self-indulgent, alcoholic and death. Though Catherine Barkley’s
sexually promiscuous in his unflattering, character seems dated to contemporary
but honest, characterizations. Nor was it female readers, the book still demonstrates
well received by his mother, who said he that Hemingway used what he learned in
had produced “one of the filthiest books of Italy to show that war brings out the best
the year.” and worst in men and women.
2. A Farewell to Arms (1923)

3. The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
emingway’s
H
second
A
novel is a high on my fter the unsuccessful
list because it is the reception to Across the
fictional account of River and into the
events that changed and informed his Trees, Hemingway
world view. When Hemingway left the wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning novel to
security of the Midwest and went to Italy defend his reputation as a writer. Based on
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looking for adventure as an ambulance his experiences in Cuba, he created a

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driver in World War I, he got more than he character of an old fisherman. Alone in a

skiff, the old man catches a great marlin, harbor, and the illegal Chinese immigrants
only to have it destroyed by sharks. The who were being smuggled from Cuba to
old man, who had been a champion arm- Key West to promote tourism in newly
wrestler and a successful fisherman, was, formed Chinatowns.
like Hemingway, trying for a comeback.
In this Depression-era novel
The old man embraces the code for Hemingway comes close to arguing for
living that Hemingway first developed social and political changes needed to help
based on his experiences in World War I--- the working man. However, Hemingway
the experiences in which a man confronts does not see the New Deal remedies as the
an unconquerable element. In fighting the solution. As a result, the fate of the novel’s
sharks, the old man exhibits courage and main character, Harry Morgan, outlines the
grace under pressure, believing “a man can limits of personal freedom, self-reliance
be destroyed, but not defeated.” and the absence of grace under pressure,
and the closest Hemingway comes to a
The reviews and success of the
solution is for Harry to say, “No matter
book were nothing less than phenomenal.
how a man alone ain’t got no further
Appropriately, Hemingway was aboard his
chance."
boat and out on the Gulf Stream when he
heard via the ship’s radio that the book had
been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. 5. The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
T
his collection of short
4. To Have and Have Not (1937) stories is a favorite
because it provides
emingway’s growing
H awareness of financial
and social strata are
reflected in To Have
Hemingway,
insight into the life of the
young Hemingway. As a child Ernest
would accompany his father, Dr. Clarence
as he provided pro
and Have Not. The characters are based on
bono medical services and attended to
people the now famous author met in Key
injured Indians, women in child-birth, and
West—the working class he encountered
individuals in a variety of life-threatening
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on the docks and at Sloppy Joe’s, the rich

situations in the Indian camps of northern
who moored their boats in Key West
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Michigan. The memory of one of these

trips appears in “Indian Camp.” Young assault on Belchite. Maria is based on a

Nick is with his father on a medical young nurse of the same name who was
mission to deliver a baby. A Native gang raped by Nationalist soldiers early in
American woman’s been in labor for two the war. The novel’s three days of conflict
days, and Nick observes his father perform takes place near the El Tajo gorge that cuts
a Caesarian with a jackknife sterilized in a through the Andalusian town of Rondo,
basin of boiled water. where a political massacre like the one led
by Pablo occurred early in the Spanish
Similarly, the reader gains insight
Civil War.
into the relationship of Hemingway’s
parents in “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Conclusion:
Wife” and understands Hemingway’s
H
emingway was never
feelings of separation from his family and
his own worst imitator.
life in Oak Park after returning from
He was perhaps the
World War I in “A Soldier’s Home.”
most influential writer
6. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) of his generation and scores of writers,
particularly the hard-boiled writers of the
B
ased on his experiences
thirties, attempted to adapt his tough,
as a war correspondent
understated prose to their own works,
during the Spanish Civil
usually without success. It is this
War, this novel contains
organicism, the skillful blend of style and
the classic Hemingway elements---a main
substance, that made Hemingway's works
character demonstrating grace under
so successful, despite the fact that many
pressure and a plot that combines the
critics have complained that he lacked
interest and conflicts associated with love
vision. Hemingway avoided
and war. As with his other works,
intellectualism because he thought it
Hemingway uses his friendships and
shallow and pretentious.
personal experiences. Robert Jordan is
modeled after Robert Merriman, an References:
American professor who left his research
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Hemingway: A Storyteller's
Legacy". John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library Online
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Presidential Library and Museum.
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"From the African Book to Under
Kilimanjaro". The Hemingway
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A GLIMPSE ON THE SELECT NOVELS/WRITINGS OF ERNEST

Authors’ Introduction: (** is coauthor and Ph. D. Research Guide for *)

Dr. A. Subramanian** is presently serving as Professor of English, Faculty of Arts

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emingway’s first novel

of these Lost Generation characters and

Also Rises, or depicting a Cuban fishing

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2. A Farewell to Arms (1923)

looking for adventure as an ambulance his experiences in Cuba, he created a

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on the docks and at Sloppy Joe’s, the rich

Michigan. The memory of one of these

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trips appears in “Indian Camp.” Young assault on Belchite. Maria is based on a

a commander in the Abraham Lincoln Heart: Hemingway's Education as

Brigade and was killed during the final

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Linda (ed). A Historical Guide to Duke University Press. ISBN 978-

Papa: 'A Very Short Story' as Work

Available in on line at www.issnjournals.com

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