Compare And Contrast

Most critics agree that Harry, the protagonist of the story, is Hemingway's self-portrait, and this makes the story doubly interesting for students of this giant of twentieth-century American writing. (Bloom 78) In the story the protagonist converses with his wife about the events of the immediate present and skims over the details of the past. In this, the story resembles such classic Hemingway stories as “Cat in the Rain” or “Hills Like White Elephants.” But in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” — and quite unlike many Hemingway stories — the internal thoughts of the protagonist are revealed as early ...