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Ernest Wemingway
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His typical hero must always fight against death and many of his novels end when the hoero dies in a brave manner as in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Sun also Rises, For whom the bell tolls.
Nature is a metaphor for the spiritual world o the character. In a Fareweel to arms, plenty of nature symbolically. Mountain, the plain and the rain.
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Like Steinbeck criticism characters too flat and lack characteri and intelligence. Simple and direct style, been very influential. His sentences are short and simple and rarely does he uses adjectives. He sometimes repeats a key phrase to emphasize his theme.
John Steinbeck
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as a Californian regionalist, he portrayed the local scene, speech, character and legend in a rich primitive way, and he is a genuine artist of folk comedy and humour.
driven by force in themsel and in society: fear, hunger, sex, the disasters of nature and the evils of capitalism. Crime often the result of these forces. Naturalistic way of looking at things + a deep sympathy for people & the human condition.
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Themes: evils in modern socierty, racism and a deep concern with his native soul(exp. and family backgr). He used a rather small num of characters who represents the various levels of the South region which often reappear in later novels. Narration: stream of counciousness gives a psychological profile of the characters from diff point of view. He used unsyntactical, impossible sentences to puzzle the reader. Time cont pres stule, everyth seem t happen at the same time.
The side of Paradise,greatly autb. Influnced by James Joyce and Oscar Wilde Portrait of an artist. Present the event through letlers and stage dialogue
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The Beautiful and the Damned shows the dark side of the Jazz Age through the squandering of money, wasing talents and oral and finantial bankruptcy.
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Critics= stereotypes & lack characterisation & sophistication.. social problems in a simplistic and sentimentality way =/ daily heroism of ordinary people and show the soul
of his land & his time in relation to social problems.
The Great Gatsby.Hero believe in the absolute power and natural godness of money. Glamour and moral ugliness of the 20s. -Plot - combines psychological realims and symbolism. Description-symbolic glow, unreal world.- Use of colours. Advance technique: complex structure & a controlled narrrative pof view.Dramatizes the time it was written failure of American success and the contrast betw the East and the West. Gatsby= Ame belif money can buy...his failure makes him a tragic figure.
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Of Mice and Men, about the shattered dreams of a pair of migrants labourers working he California soul
The Grapes of Wrath description of the Joads family of farmers, tells the story of a whole nation.
The Sun also Rises. portrait of young adults in the post-war era. Young Americans living in Paris. Fighter before now useless or simply expatriates. Rebelled the disillusion the 1WW created in an entire generation
For whom the bell tolls, the hero, Robert Jordan, is fighting against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. His experienes teach him to believ in the value of sacrifice. He learns individuals is part of a whole: mankind. First he learns this through lovee for a woman, then when he is dying, discovers a similar union with nature and the earth.
The Sound and the Fury the Compsoms, an aristocratic family once rich. We can see their decay thr the minds of several characters. appendix next edition.
As I Lay Dying most authentic rep of surrealistic novel. Thorugh the interior monologue, the reader discovers...
By the 30's he was more concerned with the evis of modern society. Light In August show how racism made the white comm of the south crazy. The main charcaters, thought that one of his parents was a Negro.
Absalom! Absalom! F deals with racism, psychol illnes and family tragedy. A young man is rejected by his father and brother bec. of his mixed blood.
The Old Man and the Sea allegory of human life, awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The man showed courage in the fight and stocisim in the defeat reminiscences from Mody Dick. Bliblical parade union betw man and nature. Universal characters.