Perplexity, Aversion, Resistance And Maturity

Earnest Hemingway was one of the most prominent writers in the United States during the 20 th century. Hemingway experienced two world wars in the first half of the 20 th century. Based on his war experiences, he created The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1954, Hemingway won Nobel Prize in Literature with The Old Man and the Sea,reaching the peak of his literary career. A writer’s cultural psychological structure exerts a heavy influence on his writing. The author will take advantage of image analysis and comparative analysis to study the main characters of Hemingway’s four major novels and his own life experience to explore Hemingway’s cultural psychological structure from the 1920 s to the 1950 s and briefly discuss his influence on American culture.Hemingway’s cultural psychological structure can be divided into four stages--perplexity, aversion to war, resistance to Fascism and maturity. Set in post-war Paris,The Sun Also Rises depicts the suffering of a group of young people injured physically and psychologically in World War I, making Hemingway the spokesman for the Lost Generation. A Farewell to Arms tells a tragic love story between Lieutenant Frederic Henry and the nurse Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of World War I. Through the tragic ending, Hemingway condemned the war for destroying personal happiness. In For Whom the Bell Tolls, the American professor of Spanish Robert Jordan sacrificed himself for the anti-fascist cause during the Spanish Civil War. At this time, Hemingway began to resist evil wars and support just wars. In The Old Man and the Sea, the old and thin fisherman Santiago fought three days with the huge marlin and wrestled with the sharks to defend his honor as a fisherman. At this moment, Hemingway, in his fifties, realized that the meaning of life lied in relentless pursuit even in the most difficult situation.