The End Of Something - Ernest Hemingway - Analyze.
...for the beach. They made fire out of driftwood and ate, even tough Nick wasn’t hungry. They ate without talking till Nick told her that it wasn’t fun anymore. “Love wasn’t fun any longer”. She left off and Nick sat there with his head in his hands. Nick stayed at the beach until the next morning. He was woken up by Bill, his friend. He knew that Nick had planned a break-up and asked whether it went all right or not. Nick is still sad and didn’t want to talk about it. Bill walked over to have a look at the rods. End of story. Why did both the town and the relationship come to an end? I think that the main reason is that they’re both old ways of doing things. More precisely I mean that time has caught upon them. They are no longer the best way of doing things. They are old-fashioned. • It isn’t any more logs to make lumber of. So the owners of the mill have to close the mill and start over again in another town. Hortons Bay isn’t the best place anymore. I think that the fact that the mill closed down, killed Hortons Bay. • The relationship between Nick and Marjorie is more difficult to fit into my theory. But if we take the time it was written into consideration, I think it can be defended. Because at this time it was expected by the youth to get along at a fairly young age and establish a home. If you didn’t you were un-normal. That was the way it was supposed to be, settle down, get kids and begin to take care of your family. But I think that Nick didn’t want this. He didn’t want to establish a home and a family at such a young age. I think he wanted to live as a youth and most likely experience other aspects of life. Nick wanted to break free from the expected. I think that there is a link between both Hortons Bay and Nick and Marjorie’s relationship. • When Hemingway describes how the schooners are taking away everything inside of the mill, I think it also can be interpreted as how it takes away every feeling Nick has for Marjorie. In the end there is nothing but an empty shell. A body with no feelings for her. Once they both were prosperous and had a great future, but now everything has vanished, both for the relationship and Hortons Bay. • Another link between them is that Marjorie thinks that the mill still looks like a castle. In Nick’s eyes it is nothing but an old ruin. By this we can understand that she believes that their relationship is working fine, but he doesn’t at all. In this case Hortons Bay is the symbol of their relationship - Castle or ruin. This is also a foreshadowing of what will happen to them later in the story. • Another link between them is what I’ve mentioned in the first question. Why did the relationship and Hortons Bay both come till an end? I think the answer, to say it briefly, is that the world develops and t...