Part one of term paper
Webster's Dictionary defines comfort as, "to give strength, hope to, or to console" (61). People find strength or consolation in different ways. Each person has a unique manner and need for that special thing that comforts them. Baker writes that: "Hemingway , on several accounts, writes of a man named Nick Adams. Hemingway uses N ...

Part two of term paper
... consolation in his father. Hemingway's depiction of Mrs. Henry Adams, Nick's mother, portrays her to be an overbearing and obnoxious woman. Benson describes Mrs. Adams as: "Nicks mother is a woman who smothers sweetly with that peculiar self righteous intensity which is born of Victorian moral certainty" (6). Mrs. Adams constantly questions the actions of Dr. Adams and Nick. According to Jackson Benson, after the row with Dick Boulton in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," ...