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Ernest Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River

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In the story, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, it is an examination of the tormented personality of the prototypical modern man who is by all accounts overeducated, smooth, demented, and truly stilted. Prufrock, is all in all tending to a potential partner, with whom he might need to "constrain the minute to its emergency" by somehow satisfying their relationship. Big Two-Hearted River" is discussing a respectable man doing whatever it takes not to lose control over his emotions, sentiments that he can't normally explain. Hemingway takes Nick through various periods of life, from youth to adulthood, and in "Big Two-Hearted River" Nick is a young man who has as not long ago went back to Michigan for a calculating expedition resulting to

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