Hemingway Code Hero: Coping With Mourn And Grief

Hemingway Code Hero: Coping with Mourn and Grief Ernest Hemingway once stated that “Courage is grace under pressure.”. This can be interpreted as meaning that one who is courageous yet constantly on edge maintains his/her composure within a world where harm and death are frequent occurrences. Throughout Hemingway’s various writings, such as “A Farewell to Arms”, the Hemingway Code Hero acted as a prime example of this principle, for Frederic Henry measured his self-worth solely on his ability to cope with the many difficult situations that presented themselves without revealing his emotions to those around him, including the people most dear to him. The concept of death is often prevailing within Hemingway’s writing. It is believed that death is unavoidable, and the afterlife is nonexistent, for “when you are dead you are dead”, as stated by Hemingway. Because all that an individual consists of is ended by death, including

For example, promptly after learning that both Catherine and the baby passed away during her process of giving birth, Frederic solemnly walked home in the rain, though the story does not state that he sheds a tear. Naturally, many individuals placed in a similar situation would react by hysterically crying as well as hopelessly falling to the ground. However, because a key characteristic of the code hero is to never reveal any indication of what is occurring in one’s mind, Frederic would not resort to this action. Throughout the story, Catherine was often fearful of rain. Therefore, the fact that this feared substance was falling on Frederick as he left the hospital makes evident the idea that all hope for him to have a prosperous life was lost at that very moment, and he became a hopeless individual, though it physically was not shown in his