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Essay Archive - Hemingway's Portrayal of Nick's Consolation
Hemingway's Portrayal of Nick's Consolation
         Webster's Dictionary defines comfort as, "to give strength, hope to,
or to console" (61).  People  find strength or consolation in different
ways.  Each  person has a unique   manner and need for that special thing
that comforts them.  Baker writes that:  "Hemingway , on  several accounts,
writes  of a man named Nick Adams.  Hemingway uses Nick throughout most of
his stories.  Primarily, he  uses this character in about five stories that
have been grouped together that critics refer to as "The  Education of Nick
Adams" (129).   Adams is Hemin....
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