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Literary Awards Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, published in 1952 won him a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. A spokesman for the Lost Generation The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. Seeking the bohemian lifestyle and rejecting the values of American materialism, a number of intellectuals, poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post World War I years. Paris was the center of it all. Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date. Hemingway’s Heroes Hemingway’s fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives—soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters—who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic courage. The Hemingway Code Hero 硬汉形象 The phrase, Hemingway code hero originated with scholar Philip Young. He uses it to describe a Hemingway character who lives correctly, following certain principles of honor, courage, and endurance which in a life of tension and pain make a man a man. The Hemingway Code Hero 硬汉形象 Throughout many of Hemingway’s novels the code hero acts in a manner which allowed the critic to formulate a particular code. ???? -?? he does not talk about what he believes in. ???? -?? He does not talk too much.? He expresses himself not in words, but in actions.? The Hemingway man is not a thinker, he is a man of action.? But his actions are based upon a concept of life. The Hemingway Code Hero 硬汉形象 Hemingway’s Style direct, terse, and often monotonous The use of short, simple and conventional words and sentences has an effect of clearness, terseness and great care. “Grace under pressure” is their motto Whatever is the result is, they are ready to live with grace under pressure. No matter how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated. Finally, they will pr