CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal
Metaphorical Illness in Hemingway's Works
Division: Humanities
Dept/Program: English
Document Type: Undergraduate Student Research
Mentor(s): David Espey
Date of this Version: 12 May 2006
This document has been peer reviewed.
Abstract
Hemingway, through his characters, illustrates the many different genres and functions of disease. More than just inflictors of sadness and pain, disease and injury are part of the human condition. They are undeniable truths that give life to humanity, Hemingway’s characters, and Hemingway himself. As Hemingway writes in Death in the Afternoon, “…all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true storyteller who would keep that from you.” Part of Hemingway’s art is acknowledging that there is no true cure. Vitality and death, contentedness and pain, disease and survival all coexist in Hemingway’s writing as one: life.
Discipline(s)
Literature in English, North America
Suggested Citation
Lahrmann, Jessica E., "Metaphorical Illness in Hemingway's Works" 12 May 2006. CUREJ: College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, University of Pennsylvania, https://repository.upenn.edu/curej/6.
Date Posted: 15 May 2006
This document has been peer reviewed.
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