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The theme of the lamentable chance permeates Hemingway’s fiction. In fact, his world is one filled with loss. On the surface, Hemingway’s short stories and novels seem to deal with violence, death, tension and threat, but those aspects constitute just the tip of the iceberg or the surface structure; the remaining hidden and larger part reveals a sense of loss matched with a sense of longing, confusion, remorse and nostalgia. What can be noticed is that Hemingway develops his fiction from a sense of nostalgia for something that was there and is not anymore in his earlier writing to a sense of remorse at a missed chance, i.e., at something that never was. The mocking of the nostalgic notion that one could have lived one’s life differently in Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is paralleled by Harry’s regret on his deathbed that he had not written all those stories and novels. The unlived life is an illusion; just like the other path in Frost’s poem. Eventually, it becomes a sort of “unremembered state” that has “no logical proof of its existence,” a road that is forever lost, no matter how hard one “attempts to make it reappear.
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2009
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Research Projects
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Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961
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Ammary, Silvia. "The road not taken in Hemingway's The snows of Kilimanjaro". Connotations. 18 (1-3): 123-138. 2009.
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