“Hemingway’s ‘Last Go. Country’. by John Cohassey.

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“Hemingway’s ‘Last Go. Country’. by John Cohassey.

Introduction

            Hemingway’s writing style has attracted a huge deal, especially from critics. He is one of the authors who has employed ultimate simplicity in his work, making them more fun to read. Almost all his writings use the same style and the same theme that brings a lot of essence into the novels. Ernest Hemingway was an author who advocated for simplicity, writing where the writers are supposed to focus on the minimalist style without explicitly stating the underlying themes or issues.  In the book “Indian camp” and the “last Good country,” his principle of simplicity is displayed and supported through various stylistic aspects, i.e., the simple detail and short single lines conveying a higher purpose. Hemingway’s past works have attracted the attention of many authors, especially critics who have submitted essays documenting their views on the same matter. Some of the works include the analysis of ’Primitivism’ and ‘Indian Camp’” by Jeffrey Meyer, the Indian camp by Sippiora Phillips, and the Last Good country by John Cohassey. The essay mentioned above highlights how Hemingway depicted the Native Americans with the recurring theme in all the works being the Initiation of Pain and the fear of death. He voiced for authors to know how to state ideas in a simple form.

Discussion

In Hemingway’s “last Good country’ by John Cohassey, the author tells the story of How Ernest Hemingway was brought up.  According to Cohassey, Hemingway got most of his experience from Michigan. This is what enabled him to visit the Indian camp and got exposed to the Native Americans, learned about their lifestyle, and later wrote the Novel “Indian Camp.”  His experience with the Native Americans, according to (Cohassey 213) allowed and influenced his characterization.  For example, he created the character Nick and Adams in the Indian Camp and the Hiwathi Indian play Hemingway 2015). Cohassey, when analyzing the last Good country,  he is surprised that madeleine “sunny,” Hemingway’s sister once said that she loved how the Indian camp smelled, on the other hand, a camp that had early been described as a “ sick Sweet smell “ by Nick Adams, the fictional character created by Hemingway.  This is a good explanation of Hemingway’s relationship with the Native Americans and the several connections with his fictional characters (Cohassey 2010). Just like the Indian Camp, the last good country is also written in the third person.

Hemming’s life in exile encountered different instances that triggered the sense of inhuman, uncaring nature of people among another episode that gave the opposite reflection of the past life. Hemmingway’s brother, born at home with the care of other people, disturbs In the course of the journey, Hemmingway encountered a father who is the head of the obstetric while the daughter is the patient. Yasushi builds up different instances in the “Indian Camp” from Hemmingway’s life. In the essay “Hemingway’s ’Primitivism’ and ‘Indian Camp, ‘” Jeffrey Meyers starts by disparaging the many literary works of these critics. Meyers believes Hemingway’s story ‘Indian Camp’ has two shocking incidents, and according to him, critics have struggled to understand these incidents leading to so many interpretations, ranging from ‘obvious to absurd’ (Meyers 211).

 The style in the analysis of “Indian Camp” is direct and minimal. However, Sipiora Argues that the story gives scant details about the Indian characters and settings, which could help the readers know the name of characters and places in the India camp.  The simplicity in his writing makes it easy for readers to analyze and interpret but find its plot to be quiet Narrow and shallow for instance Nick was the main character, but the author doesn’t describe him; instead, he begins telling the story when Nick and the father entered the boat in a plain style without giving information that may help the reader understand who Nick is.  Although much focus is laid on him throughout the story, Nick is still a stranger to the readers because there is no much information given about him.

According to Yasushi analysis of the  “Indian Camp,” The politics of pain comes in when there is an introduction to western medical technologies. From the narration, the setting was that of an Indian camp that is located in the woods.   Nick is a naïve and innocent little boy who has probably known no suffering in the world since he was born. Nick’s father is a competent doctor, but he doesn’t care about the feelings of the patients; the carefree attitude of Nick’s father was portrayed when he refused to give the pregnant Indian woman anesthetic to ease the pain, and also he told Nick that he doesn’t hear the screams which signified pain because it wasn’t important to him. Nick is too young to understand what’s happening at the Indian Camp property, and his father seems too involved in his work to understand what others feel. He fails to understand his son’s emotions, he is oblivious of his rejection by Uncle George, and he deliberately avoids his patient’s feelings (these don’t matter).   To portray Nick’s naivety, the narrator described him as “laying back his father’s arm around him” when they were arriving at the camp. Also, the father tried to protect him from the horrible suicide sight, which portrays his innocence

Some critics argue that his style of simplicity depicts Native Americans as inferior, and Hemmingway has an unsympathetic attitude towards them.   For instance, he shows no respect toward the Indian lady in the story “Indian Camp” when one character gives a joke, and other guys laugh with no respect (Phillips, 33). This shows the disrespect the writer has towards Native Americans Especial women. In John’s main idea in the essay “Last Good Country,” he argues that Hemmingway unsympathetically refused to provide names to the Indians, and he always depicted them as inferior.  However, Meyer’s critical essay refutes the claim that Hemmingway saw the Native Americas as inferior. In his essay, Meyers claims that Hemmingway had a great deal of interest when it came to primitive societies, which acted as his inspiration and motivation. He did not see the Indians ad inferior people. Instead, he looked up to them, evidenced by the collection of books on Native Americans that were in his library, Fifty-seven in Number  (Meyers 215).  

There is also one famous character, Frazer, who strongly believed that the primitive past influenced the present psychology, and he was   Hemmingway’s student   (Meyers 216).  In the essay “Primitivism’ and ‘Indian Camp’” Meyers interprets the critic’s references on Hemingway’s primitivism and the Indian camp story.  He analyzes three critics, i.e., Thomas Tanselle (1962), Kenneth Bernard (1965), and Larry Grimes (1975), to depict concerns about Indian suicide (Meyers 212).Grimes shares similar notions with Bernard i.e. the husband committing suicide due unsuccessful and a Native America becoming a human-made cuckold by the wife (Meyers 212).

Meyer sheds light on Hemingway’s primitivism in his deeds and what demonstrates that. This is the reason his thesis is built along with Hemingway’s attitude towards primitivism.  Theoretically, the most disappointing views from Hemingway’s stories show the lack of love, humanity, and solidarity. Through the realization that Meyers opinion is different from other critics views on the Husband’s suicides motive concerning Hemingway’s primitivism and the Indian Camp, in particular, will be relevant to say the evidence he uses in the essayis meant to ascertain and exhibit the number of limitations around the critical reading of Hemingway’s stories (Meyers 213). 

Another author who analyzed the Indian camp is Takano Yasushi Takano, Yasushi takes the painful scene as the main idea for building up the thesis in the “Indian camp.” It is through the obstetric episode that it helps Takano build up the thesis of intrusion of the medical institution into the local culture of delivering children through midwives.Just like the woman in the “Indian Camp” screamed while the husband fled to avoid the garnishment, Takano portrays the medical intrusion as the politics of pain being a major theme.Yasushi provides a vivid picture of western technology and the Native American primitivity, where Western technology is portrayed as an advanced means of accessing medication with civilized doctors. It’s somehow complicated in that western technology is believed to be imperial; however, the same technology leads to death: Just like Catherine died under the well laid medical technology. 

On the other hand, the Native Americans primitivism proves to work since the midwives have, in the long run, believed to perform their work with no errors. In general, western technology is seen as advanced and only for the civilized races but contradicts what DR Adam does. Yasushi in the “Indian Camp” has its interpretation of the story, just like Meyer. Meyer believes that pain needs to be validated, with sufficient mysterious reasons. According to Meyer, the husband to the screaming woman would have been taken away from the proximity area of his wife or limped out of range if possible. Since according to Meyer, Indians have a sympathetic nature, which allows them to sympathize with one another’s pain and suffering.  Yasushi concludes by describing how some people see pain as a natural process that the body is meant to go through. 

Conclusion

            The simple writing style by Hemingway has attracted the attention of many people, with critics submitting their views on the same matter through literature analysis and essays. Hemingway’s work shows the work he invested in writing the Novel.  His writing style was direct and personal, using a rich and earthy imagery with a simple and vigorous choice of words.  Hemingway fulfilled his requirements for good writing, i.e., simplicity. His words are simple and vigorous, burnished, and uniquely brilliant. It indicates, among other aspects, that some of the underlying meaning of life and death has been forgotten and that our relationship with our human fellows is broken.  In the above-analyzed stories, both physical and mental types of suffering and pain have been highlighted. The theme of innocence at the early stages of life where life looks pure and without a problem from a side and the theme of suffering, which has commonly been attributed to the process of childbirth; The stories also makes use of the male and masculinity theme, which is a popular trend in the world.

Work cited

Sipiora, Phillip. “Analyzing ‘Indian Camp.’” Reading and Writing about Literature, 2nd. ed. Pearson Education, Inc., 2002:31-34.

Cohassey, J. (2010).  “Hemingway’s ‘Last Good Country.‘” Detroit Metro Times.

Hemingway, E. (2015). The short stories of Ernest Hemingway. Simon and Schuster. A critical review.

Meyers, Jeffrey. “Hemingway’s Primitivism and” Indian Camp.”” Twentieth-century literature 34.2 (1988): 211-222.