From Experience to Innocence: The Zen in Hemingway's Heroes

This particular short analysis and criticism, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, hopes to provide readers with one student’s interpretation of Hemingway's clear and consistent movement throughout his writings toward creating an immediate, non-dualistic main character.

This paper is interesting not only for its content, but also for the fact that the author includes extensive comments on the paper made by the professor teaching the class for which the paper was written. While the professor found the analysis sharply focused and carefully crafted, his/her point of view on the topic assigned differs significantly from the student's approach to Hemingway's literary corpus.