As one of the most influential story writers of the twentieth century, Ernest Hemingway is generally considered to be the pioneer of the American short-story writing among his peers. He grew up in a well-known and respected family in a conservative town, Oak Park (Reynolds 17). Except from his sparkling success in writing, he also stands for with his private life, his friendship with famous writers like Ezra Pound, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, his four marriages and suicide (Reynolds 15). However, most importantly, as a witness of three major wars, First and Second World War and the Spanish Civil War, he directed his writing onto the ‘war’ which became a highly noticeable theme in his well-known works such as A Farewell to Arms. ‘‘No American writer is more associated with writing about war in the early twentieth century than Ernest Hemingway. He experienced it first hand, wrote dispatches from innumerable frontlines, and used war a backdrop for many of his most memorable works ’’ (Putnam 1).
In Hemingway’s stories, except from the theme, there is one more thing particularly notable, Nick Adams. As a fictional character in Hemingway’s stories, Nick Adams is included in most of the stories. Yet, the main point which has to be noticed is that even though they were not written in a sequence; they compose the story of Nick Adams’ life when they are organized in an order. More importantly, the fact that there are several points of similarity between Hemingway and Adams cannot be disregarded. ‘‘Maybe it would also appear now and at long last that in Nick Hemingway gave us the most important single character in all his work — the first in a long line of fictional self-projections, the start of everything’’ (Young 31). Hence, the similar aspects can be examined through Hemingway’s stories which are the representative examples of the certain periods in their lives. The stories should be chosen carefully to state expressly the similarity in every aspect of their lives; therefore, the stories should include significant events which have deep influence on both of them and shape their character.
