Ernest Hemingway was an American author known for works like A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea. Some of his major themes involved the relationship between love and loss, as well as death. He explored how love could bring both happiness and sadness, as characters gained meaningful connections but also faced separation and loss.

1. “After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and
happy, as though I had made love”

2. WWI Ambulance driver
Wounded in Battle
Four marriages
Suicide

3. The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
The Garden of Eden (1986)
Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
In Our Time (1925)
Men Without Women (1927)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1932)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
The Essential Hemingway (1947)
The Hemingway Reader (1953)
The Nick Adams Stories (1972)

4.  Theme of the story: The limitation and inability of
love
LOVE LOSS
Journalist in love with Inability of sex caused by
Englishwoman combat wound
Loss of meaningful love
because of physical limitations.

5. Theme: Relationship between love and pain
LOVE LOSS
Playful love becomes
Catherine’s fiancé's death
powerful and real
Escaped away from war to Catherine’s death of a
be with loved ones in peace hemorrhage

6. Theme: The gain and lost of first love
LOVE LOSS
Nick has a crash for an
Nick’s denial of “love”
Indian girl
Indian girl “cheating”

7. Theme: miscommunication between couple.
LOVE LOSS
American promised American want girl to
his love to the girl have an abortion
Girl feels hopeless and
Pregnancy
forced to obey

8. Theme: Death
LOVE LOSS
Harry’s did not open
Harry’s love to Helen
up to his true love
Harry’s death

9. Love, sex, death
and loss are the Hemingway
most common shows both the
themes that can bright side and
be found in the dark side of
Hemingway’s relationships.
works.
In realty, gain and
Whenever there is
loss both play a
love, there will be
important part in
loss too.
life.