Hemingway capitalized and the tendency dates from the earliest times. Hemingway deals with war, love, alienation, affirmation and resignation but the central theme of his stories as also of his novels is man in the post-war world. It is this kind of theme in Hemingway that makes his stories exciting and stimulating. His characters are caught in a situation of crisis and then their capacity to withstand staggering difficulties is measured. Hemingway evolves a code of courage, fortitude and endurance in the face of inevitable defeat and the resultant death. He most admires those qualities which help man achieve his end: courage, dignity and the power to endure. Hemingway's first book Three Stories and Ten Poems was published in 1923. He was soon to discover and develop Nick Adams, a fictional character based on his own life. The world of Hemingway's short stories is overbearingly irrational and naturalistic, a god-abandoned world where everything kills everything else. It is suffused with a dark and cheerless vision of human existence and makes for human loss and suffering desolateness and death, pain and violence.
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