“GRACE UNDER PRESSURE” AND HEMINGWAY’S BROAD WAR AND ANTIWAR PICTURE IN A FAREWELL TO ARMS
“GRACE UNDER PRESSURE” AND HEMINGWAY’S BROAD WAR AND ANTIWAR PICTURE IN A FAREWELL TO ARMS

Summary/Abstract: Ernest Hemingway, appreciated for his very distinctive writing style, was characterized by economy and understatement, in opposition to other modernist writers, who dwelt more on the stream, or even the ocean of consciousness. He was the author with a significant influence on the development of twentieth century fiction writing, his protagonists being typically people dealing with critical action, rather than with words, literary characters usually seen as projections of his own character – men who must show “grace under pressure,” and the pressure is often associated with war and death. Both these characters and Hemingway himself seem to undergo a very puzzling dilemma in their approach to existential issues that they find particularly important: will they bathe in the glamour of manly action, associated with war? The hereby paper deals with the comprehensive war picture sketched by Hemingway as the significant background against which the code hero shows courage and defiance as, famously put by the author ‘grace under pressure.’

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