Nick Adams

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This essay explores five short stories of Hemingway - each of them presenting incidents of alcohol use. There are not random events, but they serve as turning points or rites of passage in the life of Nicholas (Nick) Adams. The six stories explored are: "The Light of the World,"(Hemingway, 1972b) "The Last Good Country," (Hemingway, 1972c) "Night Before Landing," (Hemingway, 1972d) "A Way You'll Never Be,"(Hemingway, 1972a) "Cross Country Snow" (Hemingway, 1972e) and "Fathers and Sons." (Hemingway, 1972f) While the first five stories are detailed especially with the significance of alcohol the last story marks a point where life comes full circle.

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"Ernest Hemingway, we know, has lived his novels. Hemingway was larger than life, and he lived larger than life. E. L. Doctorow, in a tribute to Hemingway, describes a day in Florida when Hemingway was able to persevere after hooking a huge marlin to snag and capture it. But not content with that accomplishment, he was seen on the docks at midnight (probably drunk) using the marlin as a punching bag. (Doctorow, 1986) Hemingway remains an enigma to most, almost five decades after he took his own life a man broken down by diseases and the culmination of a life of extremes perhaps running away from his own self. (Baker, 1963) Several books and a monthly journal "Hemingway Reviews" seek to deconstruct his novels, short stories and reportage perhaps, they seek to deconstruct the very essence that was Ernest Hemingway. (Oliver, 1986)"

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