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- In the beginning of the story, Hemingway is describing the rise and fall of Horton Bay with great detail. The reason could be that Hemingway is trying to create a parallel structure between the town and the relationship between Nick and Marjorie. (Short: The environment surrounding the two is representing their relationship.)
- Marjorie might imply that she wants this relationship to become more serious and have a happy future but Nick's respond clearly indicates that he has no interest in a future with Marjorie.
- Nick is wondering whether or not he made the right decision when he lies down and the reader is informed that the break up was actually planned when Bill suddenly appears and asks how Marjorie responded to the break up.
- Nick is rowing the boat throughout the whole story but after the break up, Nick offers Marjorie to push the boat off for her but she denies and her way of handling this situation shows her pride and independence from Nick.
- It could seem that Marjorie is challenging Nick's maturity when she cuts the fins of a fish and says that she knows that the moon will arrive tonight. He therefore feels insulted by her way of acting. The time of story can also explain why Nick feels this way.
• Comment on how Hemingway uses the location as a stylistic device to control the narrative of his prose and the setting as a metaphor of the conflict in the story.
- The story takes places in the Hortons bay, which was a lumbering town. But one year there where no more logs to make lumber. Maybe Hemingway uses this metaphor to describe the relationship between the characters in the story. A lumbering town, but one year there where no more thing to lumber, it can describe the love and it’s end between Nick and Marjorie.
• Comment on Marjorie saying, “The trout’s are feeding…” and Nick’s reply, “But they are not striking”.
- ‘’The trout’s are feeding’’ we can understand in a way that Marjorie are trying to solving the problems between them, and save the relationship. She wouldn’t end it yet. But then Nick reply with ‘’But they are not striking’’ and then he mean, you can try so much as you can, but you can’t achieve the goal. He means that they can’t save or continue working on this relationship anymore.
• Comment on, “He lay there for a long time”.
- We can understand it in a way for Nick’s feelings and thoughts about this relationship. Maybe it isn’t so easy for him, like he think to begin with. Maybe this relationship means a lot for him, and it is hard to make an ending of it.
- "The End of Something", by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story about a young couple, who is fishing near a lake; which indicates how time can change the world and the people in it. In this short story does the writer convey how the change happens all the time of life, and how the individual is stock in the present. The present only lasts for that one, fleeting moment you realize it is there, then it is gone, past, and it can never be reached again.
- These sentences indicate that Nick doesn’t have any sort of interest in their relationship anymore. He indicates that there isn’t anything left, and they should just let their relationship go; since it cant get fixed; although there are probably ways of fixing the relationship but due to the lake of interest in the relation their have lost the hope.
- He is reflecting about his decision about breaking up with Marjory.
- Masculinity ;the story take place in 1920 where the dominant gender was the man with the woman in the shadow; but in this context the roles are switched. Marjorie has a dominant personality and according to nick she knows to much
- Some of the elements of minimalistic writing style could for instances be; An economy with words, a focus upon the present tense. Some specific elements of Hemmingway are; omission where we don’t get to know the thoughts and feelings of the couple, but we are still able to guess it; by their behavior and actions. Other than that; we have a The 3rd person narrator, who is objective. The characters in the short story are flat, and that cause the minimalistic writing style by the writer. The style is based on a minimal description of characters and setting, with a minimal background information.
• Comment on how Hemingway uses the location as a stylistic device to control the narrative of his prose and the setting as a metaphor of the conflict in the story. - The story takes place in Hortons Bay, which was a lumbering town. When there were no more logs to make lumber, and Hortons Bay became a town, where people lived. Ten years later, there is nothing left but emptiness. They have enjoyed bumming years in the town, which has now come to an end that could allude to Nick and Marjorie’s relationship. The way Nick ends his relationship with Marjorie indicates to the title “the end of something”, just like how the city has ended. Something that once was beautiful and fun has come to an ‘end’. • Comment on Marjorie saying, “The trouts are feeding…” and Nick’s reply, “But they are not striking”. - It’s a metaphor, that describes how Marjorie and Nick are feeling. Marjorie says that they could work it out and fix the relationship, but Nick’s reply indicates that he lost interest in the relationship and therefore he ends it. • Comment on, “He lay there for a long time”. - Nick just ended his relationship with Marjorie. The fact that he just lays there for a long time could be a sign, that the relationship he had with Marjorie, still meant something to him, and that ending it was a hard thing to do. • Masculinity - When Nick tells Marjorie, “You know everything”. It hurts his pride as a man, because he isn’t allowed to show, what he is capable of. Marjorie is always a step ahead of him, which makes him doubt his masculinity.
- In the beginning of the story, Hemingway is describing the rise and fall of Horton Bay with great detail. The reason could be that Hemingway is trying to create a parallel structure between the town and the relationship between Nick and Marjorie.
SvarSlet(Short: The environment surrounding the two is representing their relationship.)
- Marjorie might imply that she wants this relationship to become more serious and have a happy future but Nick's respond clearly indicates that he has no interest in a future with Marjorie.
- Nick is wondering whether or not he made the right decision when he lies down and the reader is informed that the break up was actually planned when Bill suddenly appears and asks how Marjorie responded to the break up.
- Nick is rowing the boat throughout the whole story but after the break up, Nick offers Marjorie to push the boat off for her but she denies and her way of handling this situation shows her pride and independence from Nick.
- It could seem that Marjorie is challenging Nick's maturity when she cuts the fins of a fish and says that she knows that the moon will arrive tonight. He therefore feels insulted by her way of acting. The time of story can also explain why Nick feels this way.
-Erhan
• Comment on how Hemingway uses the location as a stylistic device to control the narrative of his prose and the setting as a metaphor of the conflict in the story.
SvarSlet- The story takes places in the Hortons bay, which was a lumbering town. But one year there where no more logs to make lumber. Maybe Hemingway uses this metaphor to describe the relationship between the characters in the story. A lumbering town, but one year there where no more thing to lumber, it can describe the love and it’s end between Nick and Marjorie.
• Comment on Marjorie saying, “The trout’s are feeding…” and Nick’s reply, “But they are not striking”.
- ‘’The trout’s are feeding’’ we can understand in a way that Marjorie are trying to solving the problems between them, and save the relationship. She wouldn’t end it yet.
But then Nick reply with ‘’But they are not striking’’ and then he mean, you can try so much as you can, but you can’t achieve the goal. He means that they can’t save or continue working on this relationship anymore.
• Comment on, “He lay there for a long time”.
- We can understand it in a way for Nick’s feelings and thoughts about this relationship. Maybe it isn’t so easy for him, like he think to begin with. Maybe this relationship means a lot for him, and it is hard to make an ending of it.
- Emine A.
- "The End of Something", by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story about a young couple, who is fishing near a lake; which indicates how time can change the world and the people in it. In this short story does the writer convey how the change happens all the time of life, and how the individual is stock in the present. The present only lasts for that one, fleeting moment you realize it is there, then it is gone, past, and it can never be reached again.
SvarSlet- These sentences indicate that Nick doesn’t have any sort of interest in their relationship anymore. He indicates that there isn’t anything left, and they should just let their relationship go; since it cant get fixed; although there are probably ways of fixing the relationship but due to the lake of interest in the relation their have lost the hope.
- He is reflecting about his decision about breaking up with Marjory.
- Masculinity ;the story take place in 1920 where the dominant gender was the man with the woman in the shadow; but in this context the roles are switched. Marjorie has a dominant personality and according to nick she knows to much
- Some of the elements of minimalistic writing style could for instances be; An economy with words, a focus upon the present tense.
Some specific elements of Hemmingway are; omission where we don’t get to know the thoughts and feelings of the couple, but we are still able to guess it; by their behavior and actions. Other than that; we have a The 3rd person narrator, who is objective. The characters in the short story are flat, and that cause the minimalistic writing style by the writer. The style is based on a minimal description of characters and setting, with a minimal background information.
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• Comment on how Hemingway uses the location as a stylistic device to control the narrative of his prose and the setting as a metaphor of the conflict in the story.
SvarSlet- The story takes place in Hortons Bay, which was a lumbering town. When there were no more logs to make lumber, and Hortons Bay became a town, where people lived. Ten years later, there is nothing left but emptiness. They have enjoyed bumming years in the town, which has now come to an end that could allude to Nick and Marjorie’s relationship. The way Nick ends his relationship with Marjorie indicates to the title “the end of something”, just like how the city has ended. Something that once was beautiful and fun has come to an ‘end’.
• Comment on Marjorie saying, “The trouts are feeding…” and Nick’s reply, “But they are not striking”.
- It’s a metaphor, that describes how Marjorie and Nick are feeling. Marjorie says that they could work it out and fix the relationship, but Nick’s reply indicates that he lost interest in the relationship and therefore he ends it.
• Comment on, “He lay there for a long time”.
- Nick just ended his relationship with Marjorie. The fact that he just lays there for a long time could be a sign, that the relationship he had with Marjorie, still meant something to him, and that ending it was a hard thing to do.
• Masculinity
- When Nick tells Marjorie, “You know everything”. It hurts his pride as a man, because he isn’t allowed to show, what he is capable of. Marjorie is always a step ahead of him, which makes him doubt his masculinity.