North-American Literature Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway

Protagonist 1) How did Harry destroy his writing capacity? 2) 3) 4) How different, psychologically speaking, is the Harry of the flashback to the Harry of the dialogues? What dwarfed his writing? What does he remember in the flashbacks? How does he feel about these memories? How does he deal with imminent death?

Setting 1) What does the environment represent in the story? Can it be dominated? 2) What does it mean that strange noise the hyena makes after Harry dies? Time 1) What notion of time is there in this short-story?

Style In most of Hemingways best short stories, the protagonists are carrying some deep psychological hurt that they will not even think about to themselves. Their minds are icebergs because the reader can see just the hint of these troubles peek forth at times, and must read extremely carefully to try to piece together exactly what is bothering the protagonist. The sentences are blunt, unadorned, almost devoid of adjectives, and quite uninformative as to what Harry is feeling (the iceberg principle). The sentences are short anddeclarative.But in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, the matters that trouble Harry are made clear to the reader; the narrator, who is inside Harrys head, speaks of them explicitly. 1) Which parts are these? How are they different? 2) What characteristics described on pg. 1078 1080 of The Norton Anthology of American Literature are present in The Snows of Kilimanjaro? Symbols 1) What are the symbols that represent death?