Hemingway Sexism

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Ernest Hemingway is an author that uses the themes of coming of age, sexism, and racism in the Nick Adams series of short stories. “Indian Camp,” the first short story in Hemingway’s best collection of short stories, is a story about a very young boy in the Michigan north woods, accompanying his father, Dr. Adams, and his uncle George to an American Indian camp on the other side of the lake to help a pregnant Indian women in labor. There the doctor performs the procedure with tools not usually used for laboring a child. At the end they all discover that the husband committed suicide because the wife was screaming of excruciating pain during the labor. Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Indian Camp” shows Nick Adam’s transitions into adulthood …show more content…

He was possibly a sexist because of most of his work had some really sexist things written. “In Hemingway’s twentieth-century world, one responses to the suffering of women (and perhaps, to the suffering of children, war refugees, and animals images of which are closely linked in his writings to the suffering of women).” (online). His portrayal of women affect the story because in “Indian Camp” everyone treats the Indian woman with no respect. “No. I haven’t any anaesthetic, but her screams are not important” (18). During this quote the woman was screaming of the pain she was having and they didn’t really care about her and how bad the pain was, they were just there to deliver the baby and leave. Which shows that they are sexist towards Indian woman. After the baby was born they found that the husband had committed suicide. “His throat had been cut from ear to ear” (20). The husband couldn't stand his screaming wife so he killed himself. This shows that this is sexist because he just left his wife and his new born baby that was just born. Nick chooses his father over his mother because he was more like his father and he was always there for Nick unlike his mother

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