“Men Without Women” is Ernest Hemingway’s second short story collection published in 1927. When you read the stories of men without women, you sometimes witness the lives of a bullfighter, a boxer, a soldier. Each story reveals different male portraits. Although Hemingway’s male protagonists seem like powerful characters fighting the challenges, they have a common fear: Losing. Hemingway gives a description of these men in the story of In Another Country in the book:
“Why shouldn’t wa marry?“
“He can not marry. People can lose everything; but it should not create the situation to lose it. It must not create the situation to lose. He must look for things he cannot lose. ”
Hemingway’s heroes seem to flee from the enemy on the one hand and the women on the other. Falling in love is the beginning of losing because women will lower their shields and make them vulnerable. Women will do what their enemies can’t do.
Hemingway gives this escape to the reader with all his nakedness. The man who tried to convince his lover to have his baby in the Hills Like White Elephants said, “It’s actually a very simple operation. Even surgery cannot be counted. Ikçe Hemingway just doesn’t give everything to men who run away from women.
Hemingway’s Men Without Women come before us like a documentary. Whatever a boxer really is, we can see him in Hemingway’s stories. In battle, in the ring, in the arena do not envisage losing. This is not something they can’t handle. When they win tomorrow, they will forget their defeat with everyone. But the women in question… There is no power to overcome this.
For Hemingway’s portraits of men, you might say not romantic, not strong, not beautiful, not unrealistic. Hemingway’s pen is as ruthless as life itself, and doesn’t try to lighten the landscape or make it look any different after it. His every story written to the end ends with death, and the person who keeps it is not a good story writer, Hem says Hemingway. Menless Women is a fascinating book to which Hemingway adheres to the principle of writing without hiding the truth to the last page. No power can divert heroes from the identity they actually belong to.
The last story in the book is a story about non-communication while lying down. The last sentence of the last story: “He was very confident in the marriage, he thought that the marriage would make everything right.”
White Women-like Hills, In Another Country and Killers, including some of Hemingway’s favorite stories, are a good start to get to know Hemingway, one of the best story writers in world literature.
As a famous Nobel Prize-winning author, he is one of the most widely read writers in the world, but it is only a privilege of readers in our country to read. A book with many different stories that will change your thoughts about men that you cannot leave after you have started.
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