ro that can endure the pain and survive without giving into weakness. By Nick and his father discussing death, it shows that Hemingway thought: From a purely aesthetic point of view it is perfectly irrelevant, but from a human and biographical point of view perfectly unavoidable, to remark the uncanny fact that the originals of both these characters, making their first appearances here as a doctor and son, were destined to destroy themselves. (Young 41) Nick and his father discuss death with each other after the incident because Nick had a few questions to ask. Furthermore, in "The Snows Of Kilimanjaro," Harry, the central character, is lying ill on an African plain where he is dying. Harry realizes that he is dying, but he has no patience with the efforts of his surviving wife to reassure him. Hemingway believed, "You died when there was no more to be said…" (Hughes 129). The dying man is called a coward by his wife because he does not want to move. She is accusing him of accepting the end too tranquilly. She wants him to struggle. This shows Harry's weakness and inability to survive. As a result, Harry is weak in that he allows death to overcome him without a fight. This shows that Harry was weak inside himself. Hemingway states that Harry, "has a denial of any objective basis for truth and is destined to die" (Shaw 71). Harry’s wife with her wealth weans him from all that sustained his virility, betrays him to aimlessness and humiliation. For this reason, Hemingway makes his protagonists face death to either survive or fail. Hemingway states, "death sits with us from the beginning of life" (Shaw 71). Harry's wife is one to survive and fight death while Harry is not strong enough to survive the wrath of death. Hemingway's world is a violent world, whose heroes live by a code Brady 3 of honor that gives meaning to life and helps them face death, in which he shows through Harry in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Francis Macomber...
