Fairytales and Hemingway

When we started talking about fairy tales and myths, I immediately thought of children stories, and one that specifically came to mind was A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The story deals with an old man named Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by ghosts that illustrate how his mean behavior towards others affects those around him. And he is able to change his ways by the end of the story. The story touches on the ideas of morals and ethics and outcomes and consequences of your actions. One of those specific outcomes is the death of Tiny Tim and the death of Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Death is a recurring theme in many of Ernest Hemingway's stories whether it is in the form of death itself or the inevitability of death. Dickens drew inspiration of the dark, depressing details for A Christmas Carol from witnessing the appalling conditions of children during the 19th century. And Hemingway draws inspiration for the death and drear in his stories from actual deaths such as the war experiences from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and the suicides in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"