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1、英语二班 朱玉兰 about Nick s discovery of evil Because of the darkness and ignorance of the world Nick Adams an innocent boy in his coming age as a man experiences evil in the world and is a different person at the close than he was at the start He wanted to escape from the evils but the society at that ti
2、me were the same and he cannot change it Finally he would become more and more realistic the me This short story described the society of 1920s After World War 1 everything in the society has been out of order it was filled with violence death and evil This situation has influenced a lot of people P
3、eople s illusions are vulnerable and can be easily destroyed by the society in a mass the me How does this happens to Nick analyze from Nick and other characters A Nick vs gangster What are you going to kill Ole Andreson for What did he ever do to you From the passage we can know Nick has so many qu
4、estions when faces gangsters Obviously he is naive and simple even he doesn t feel gangsters are dangerous He doesn t know that people can be hired to kill others the me What s the idea Nick asked this question for three times indicates that Nick haven t met things like this he doesn t know what s h
5、appening Nick stood up He had never had a towel in his mouth before It shows being gagged was fresh to Nick he never experiences such a kind of thing From here he firstly knows the existence of violence the me B Nick vs George From the passage we can know Nick must be younger than George George can
6、keep calm even can talk with gangsters naturally After the killer s leaving he asks Nick to alarm Ole Andreson but he doesn t force Nick It seems George has many experiences about life he is more mature than Nick and has totally accepted the situation of the whole society Maybe we can say in his opi
7、nion no matter what happens there is nothing can shock him the me C Nick vs Sam I don t like it said the cook I don t like any of it at all You better not have anything with it at all Sam the cook said You better stay away out of it I don t even listen to it he said and shut the door That is Sam s r
8、eaction towards this matter From Sam s action Nick is aware of people s indifference to the things which have no affect on themselves the me D Nick vs Ole Andreson I don t want to know what they were like Ole Andreson said He looked at the wall Nick feels unexpected about Andreson reaction He thinks
9、 Andreson should have ran away at once So from Andreson Nick knows people s attitude to death While Ole s action which he do nothing to resist have an deep effect on Nick the me E Nick vs Mrs Bell I m sorry he don t feel well the woman said He s an awfully nice person He was in the ring you know Mrs
10、 Bell thinks Ole is a nice man She can t understand why such a person will be killed From the conversation with Mrs Bell Nick finds a new society which people confound right and wrong the me Hemingway pushes the plot ahead with large quantity of conversations just as I listed below most of my analys
11、is are based on dialogues In this story only 95 declarative sentences are used and other sentences almost 300 appeared in dialogues Without description of background characters personality as well as what s in their minds the author leaves more room of imagination for us in the dialogues and simple
12、sentences the me At last the author express the novel s theme with the dialogues followed I m going out of this town Nick said Yes said George That s a good thing to do I can t stand to think about him waiting in the room and knowing he s going to get it It s too damned awful Well said George you be
13、tter not think about it the me In the end Nick totally discovered the evil of the whole society and decided to leave the town But why didn t he do something to help Ole Andreson Where was his kindness His kindness has been killed and he became indifferent to others in order to ensure his own securit
14、y We don t know whether they eventually managed to kill Ole Andreson or not but surely they killed something abstract Nick s kindness his dream about society and the world the me In the short story the author criticized the chaotic society and some indifferent people Through the grow the destruction of his illusion to society and the world of Nick he shows us the confusion of people in such a society and revealed the change of some people from kind and innocent to realistic indifferent the me
