Harrison amd hemingway

Harrison amd hemingway

Hemingway and Harrison
While Ernest Hemingway and Jim Harrison may share certain similarities in content and personal belief, they remain two phenomenal authors with wildly differing styles. Not only do they choose to write about strikingly similar subjects, but even their backgrounds have coincided. Despite these parallels, Hemingway and Harrison’s individual styles could not be less alike. The former’s terse prose may be one of the most distinct of popular twentieth century literature. The latter, meanwhile, engages the reader with lofty, often complex sentences. Regardless, they remain two tremendous talents, with Harrison at 71 still writing strong.
Most similar between the two authors is the content of their works. Both have a reputation of writing about man’s connection to the natural world. Harrison in particular explores the spiritual relationship with nature. A love of the outdoors was fostered from their Midwest upbringings, Hemingway in Illinois and Harrison in Michigan. Harrison has a tendency to write stories mainly set within Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, also the basis for Hemingway’s The Nick Adams Stories. While often writing admirably of nature, they have also been known to explore man’s violent relationship with it. In Big Two-Hearted River, Hemmingway’s character Nick Adams catches a fish mutilated by man’s effects on the stream. Harrison’s True North involves the Burkett family’s nefarious past logging atrocities. Both authors surely have a deep reverence for nature, and outrage for those who violate it.
Aside from physical nature, both scribes enjoy musing on human nature. Typically, their protagonists are intelligent, down-to-earth characters struggling with a personal demon needing to be exorcized. Occasionally, though more often for Hemingway, this wound is in some way the result of war. In True North, David Burkett’s family has been torn apart by his father’s near-insanity, partly as a result of combat. Hemingway...