Hemingway and the Effect of the First World War

Students will imagine themselves as journalists writing about Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, making connections to wars in the past and Hemingway’s literature.

Using direct quotations from Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and “In Another Country,” students will write a thesis-driven literary analysis essay that discusses the ways in which these examples of Hemingway’s short fiction reveal the trauma suffered by soldiers during World War I.

Students will also connect the literature of World War I to the experiences of soldiers in today’s wars.