Analyse af Hemingways 'Indian Camp'

This was an excellent short story, and a bewildering ending.

The story put Nick through a horrific situation, which was a woman giving birth but in the harshest of all settings and under extreme pain and two days of labor. ” This sentence is a sort or prelude to what might become of the father or even Nick. I liked this element of the defining moment in the ending of Hemingway’s story as it reminded me of other authors who do similar things, such as John Steinbeck. When Nick asks his father why the Indian woman’s husband killed himself his father replies, “I don’t know, Nick. It seems that Nick went from one extreme to the other, terrified of death, to not even believing in his own mortality. However we can still see the innocence of Nick shine through in his conversation with his father right before they leave, where Nick questions his father about suicide and it’s relevance to babies. What I was asking myself was what would it be like, if you believed you couldn’t die? If you truly believed that someday you wouldn’t be here, and if you drew that from your own personal experiences, not from teachings. Being seven and witnessing all this put Nick through a turning point in his life that defined his manhood and shaped him into a stronger person. I did like the ending of the story “Indian Camp” although it could be foreshadowing some horrible even that is to take place in Nick’s life. These new experiences may scar him for life, or change his views on life, as they have changed them about death. Or, perhaps Nick has been scared even more by his experiences that he is just in denial about death, and trying to push it out of his mind.