Theme of love and labour in the short stories of Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway wrote about unease and instability. His unease is that of the individual man, fearful for his own masculinity, oppressed by the need particularly to prove him. He dwells upon horrible things just to convince himself that ‘he can take’. His heroes struggle in endless isolation against heavy odds, but they enjoy their struggle unconventionally and wholeheartedly like Santiago. Hemingway believes that life is full of struggle and that man is not made for defeat.