Remember, for each of the seven characteristics listed, you need to include two examples--from two different stories--with page numbers. Each story must be used once in the answers.
Settings: Hemingway also uses setting to indicate something about the characters or the events of each of his stories. For example, look at the opening of "The End of Something" from In Our Time.
"In the old days Hortons Bay was a lumbering town. No one who lived in it was out of sound of the big saws in the mill by the lake. Then one year there were no more logs to make lumber. The lumber schooners came into the bay and were loaded with the cut of the mill that stood stacked in the yard. All the piles of lumber were carried away. The big mill building had all its machinery that was removable taken out and hoisted on board one of the schooners by the men who had worked in the mill. The schooner moved out of the bay toward the open lake carrying the two great saws, the travelling carriage that hurled the logs against the revolving, circular deep load of lumber. Its open hold covered with canvas and lashed tight, the sails of the schooner filled and it moved out into the open lake, carrying with it everything that had made the mill a mill and Hortons Bay a town.
The one-story bunk houses, the eating-house, the company store, the mill offices, and the big mill itself stood deserted in the acres of sawdust that covered the swampy meadow by the shore of the bay.
Ten years later there was nothing of the mill left except the broken white limestone of its foundations showing through the swampy second growth as Nick and Marjorie rowed along the shore." (31)How does Hemingway mirror the later events in the story with this opening description of Hortons Bay?
Pay special attention to both the characteristics of the Hemingway Hero and the setting as you read "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" today (133).
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