Nick Adams (character)

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Nick Adams is the protagonist of more than a dozen of Ernest Hemingway's short stories written in the 1920s and 30s. Most of the stories were collected in a 1972 book titled The Nick Adams Stories. They are stories of initiation and adolescence. Taken as a whole, as in The Nick Adams Stories, they chronicle a young man’s coming of age in a series of linked episodes. The character – Nick Adams – is partly inspired by Hemingway’s experiences, from his summers in Northern Michigan to his service in the Red Cross ambulance corps in World War I. The story-arc and themes may have been influenced by Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. The stories are grouped according to major themes in Nick’s life.

Contents

[edit] Nick Adams Stories

[edit] The Northern Woods

  • "Three Shots"
  • "The Indian Camp"
  • "The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife"
  • "Ten Indians"
  • "The Indians Moved Away"

Nick is around 6 1/2 in all of these stories.

[edit] On His Own

  • "The Light of the World"
  • "The Battler"
  • "The Killers"
  • "The Last Good Country"
  • "Crossing the Mississippi"

~ age 16-20, late adolescence

[edit] War

[edit] A Soldier Home

[edit] Company of Two

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