Hemingway: Big Two-Hearter River

Human vs. Harmony <Tab/>In his collection "In Our Time" Hemingway deals with the problem of war. A senseless act of human cruelty, it can be dangerous enough to ruin what the human civilization has been creating and accumulating throughout the centuries for a month, a week, even a couple of days. In "Big Two-Hearted River," however, the author emphasizes on the fact that there is still one thing that unlike …

…complete harmony. The only place where the fish is not disturbed even by Nick who is maybe one of the few people who has learned to appreciate nature and its harmony. However, there are "plenty of days coming when he could fish the swamp"(156). He is the first one who has learned not to take nature for granted, and would probably be the first one to conquer the swamp. The only one who deserves it.