Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway

Protagonist 1) How did Harry destroy his writing capacity? 2) How different, psychologically speaking, is the Harry of the flashback to the Harry of the dialogues? What dwarfed his writing?

Italicized: he slips into the regret of a man who knows he is dying but who rues the fact that he has not accomplished what he wanted to accomplish. The gangrenous rot that is taking his leg metamorphoses, in his mind, into the poetry that he never wrote: Im full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry. In his earlier life, especially in Paris, he lived in bohemian poverty and devoted his energies to writing. But he consistently regrets leaving that behind. He gave up, in a sense, and began spending his time drinking, travelling, hunting, and chasing rich women. He became what he despised, as the narrator says.
3) 4) What does he remember in the flashbacks? How does he feel about these memories? How does he deal with imminent death?

His bohemian life and that he is an experienced outdoorsman. He faces death stoically, quietly, and with a great deal of machismo. All he needsis whiskey and soda to accept his imminent death. But in the flashback sections, Harry faces his life.
Setting 1) What does the environment represent in the story? Can it be dominated?

Nature is consistently depicted as both uncaring and unyielding. Space is a jailhouse that isolates the characters from help. The vividness of his memoriesprovides no shield from death.
2) What does it mean that strange noise the hyena makes after Harry dies?

Nature will go on devouring.

Time 1) What notion of time is there in this short-story?

Style In most of Hemingways best short stories, the protagonists are carrying some deep psychological hurt that they will not even think about to themselves. Their minds are icebergs because the reader can see just the hint of these troubles peek forth at times, and must read extremely carefully to try to piece together exactly what is bothering the protagonist. The sentences are blunt, unadorned, almost devoid of adjectives, and quite uninformative as to what Harry is feeling (the iceberg principle). The sentences are short anddeclarative.But in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, the matters that trouble Harry are made clear to the reader; the narrator, who is inside Harrys head, speaks of them explicitly. 1) Which parts are these? How are they different?

In the italics,thesentences grow longerand almost streamofconsciousness, with one clause tacked on after another recording the protagonistsimpression of a scene. The narrator describes scenes fondly and vividly, and uses metaphors and figurativelanguage: the snow as smooth to see as cake frosting, for instance.
2) What characteristics described on pg. 1078 1080 of The Norton Anthology of American Literature are present in The Snows of Kilimanjaro?

Symbols 1) What are the symbols that represent death?

a) The woman leaves the camp to go kill an animal; b) hyena and vultures, animals that feed on carcass; c) skulls around the camp; d) the relationship between Harry and his wife;