Associate Professor, S.V. College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 23 December, 2013.
Some of the stories presents transcendental element in Hemingway's thought which at first glance seems at odds with his naturalistic technique. Most of them examine the manifold difficulties encountered on the journey toward individuation. The journey toward individuation in western culture is best personified by the life of Christ, and Hemingway resorts to this motif in a number of ways. At one level the life of Christ provides an outstanding historical meaning of personality, and the conflicts faced by Christ are not unlike those presented to contemporary man. In order to view more precisely the inner workings of Hemingway's portrayal of some of his “strong” hero-characters, a closer look at the implications of the Christ motif is appropriate. As an archetype of the hero, the one who is to achieve “wholeness”, Christ recognized the nature of the objective psyche which had taken over the men of his times.
Individuation, efficacy, encountered, personified, intolerable, perspective, crucifixion, assimilation, tremendous, manifestation, attributes, persecution, immortality, hierarchy, inevitable, contingencies, reconcilement
