Investigating female and male relationships with nature on Ernest Hemingway’s short story ‘The end of something’

This paper investigates women/men relation with nature on Ernest Hemingway’s short story ‘The end of something’. Under the cultural constructs, the male has been defined active, brave, rational who belongs to culture and civilization, while the female, by negative reference to the male as the human norm, has been defined passive, acquiescent, timid, emotional, and conventional who belongs to nature. Accordingly, Mother Nature, which is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature in the form of a mother, has been represented through many fictions including Ernest Hemingway’s short story, The end of something. In this short story, Hemingway uses the imagery of an irreparably damaged environment to link violence against nature with other forms of violence depicted in the collection, In our time, including violence against women. It is not only a story about one of the writer’s romantic experiences, but also is about some lost concepts such as femininity and Mother Nature. Epitomizing the disruption in nature, Hemingway demonstrates propensity of human beings to masculinity. Therefore; we are going to analyze Hemingway’s story not only as a simple autobiographical narrative but also as a symbolic one which illustrates the relation between femininity and masculinity with nature.

کلیدواژه ها:

Mother Nature ، Femininity ، Masculanity ، Ernest Hemingway ، The End of Something