The paper summarizes the reviews by major literary critics of the works of Ernest Hemingway.
The author states that despite critics’ sometimes negative reviews, Hemingway was a major American writer, a winner of the Noble prize who could claim literary greatness. He continues that many of Hemingway’s works are classics of American literature. The selected reviews refer to some of these classics. The author writes that Hemingway’s ability to capture the essence of the despair and desolation of his generation is his major achievement.
Although critics have offered praise and blame for Hemingway’s writing, raved about successes, and panned failures, the consensus must be that he is a major American writer who can claim literary greatness. In 1925, when he was not yet twenty-six, his first short story collection, In Our Time, was reviewed in The New York Times. An anonymous critic described his prose as lean, pleasing, with tough resilience, fibrous, athletic, fresh, hard, and clean, as if an athlete, not a book, was being reviewed. Hemingway’s style was so different, that new ways had to found to describe it. Hemingway’s 1961 New York Times obituary echoed the early review, describing his lean and sinewy prose, and his laconic, understated dialogue.
MBA 2001 Week 6
Take four sheets of paper.
Write at the top of the first sheet “What are my lifetime goals?” Take two minutes to answer this question. Write whatever comes to your mind. Then take two more minutes to go over your list and make any changes.
On the second sheet write “How would I like to spend the next three years?” Take two minutes to answer and two more minutes to go over your list.
On the third sheet write “If I knew my life would end in six months, how would I live until then?” Again write for two minutes then review for two minutes more.
On your fourth sheet write down the three goals you consider the most important among all the goals you listed.
Compare all four lists. Are there any themes that run through your goals? Consider the relationship between your goals and your daily activities and your plans.