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Iceberg and Extended Metaphors in “Snows of Kilimanjaro”

In the short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway, he exhibits a wide use of his famous writing style, the iceberg method. The iceberg method is Using this method, the author manages to blend together the use of the method with extended metaphors. An example of this would be, when Harry pushes away his wife Helen even though she tries to help him. Hemingway only shows us that Harry is upset and hates his wife. Although, what happens is a lot more complicated and far more buried within the text. I bet your father would be disappointed if he read this since it wouldn’t get an A. TRANSITION The extended metaphor of regret is present throughout the story. Hemingway alludes to all of this within the flashbacks that Harry has. Each and every flashback describes what happened to Harry in the past. The description of the past is peaceful but has some subtle hints of regret. Each of the flashbacks have a deeper meaning that will eventually tie into the extended metaphor of regret. He regretted gambling all the time when there was or wasn’t snow, he regretted all his bad endings with his previous wives, and he regretted not writing certain stories that he planned on writing. He has even gone far enough as to push his wife, Helen, away. Since this is your example of the use of flashbacks, you should start it out with “in one of the flashbacks…” or “Another flashback was” He does this in hope that his wife leaves, so he won’t regret leaving her alone after he dies. Hemingway, “the master of the iceberg method” has yet again shown us why he’s the master, by creating “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”.