Casting Into One’s Self: Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” (Zoom)
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Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, always knew he would write. First as a young boy writing poetry, then as a journalist writing short news vignettes, he developed a style that was distinctively his own. In Our Time, his first short story collection, he introduces us to Nick Adams, a recurring character based on Hemingway’s own life.
In Big Two-Hearted River, we follow a young Nick Adams after he is wounded in World War I. He has gone on a camping trip to a river he’d fished as a boy. Here he struggles to reorient himself to the reality of day-to-day life while the trauma of the war still hangs heavily on him.
“Ernest Hemingway” by Toronto History is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
- Optional Book:
- In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway (ISBN-13: 978-8581486719)
Maryanne Garbowsky
Dr. Maryanne Garbowsky taught at the college level for most of her life. She specialized in American literature of the late 19th and early 20th century. She is the author of two books on poet Emily Dickinson and has written numerous articles on art and literature.