An analysis of Hemingway's stories and novels based on my many years of reading and writing about Hemingway and teaching him to high school and college students. I'm a writer and educator who has presented many essays at international Hemingway conferences and published articles on the nuance and complexity of his work. I put special emphasis on how his work echoes thinkers like Carl Jung and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, paying little attention to the deeds and misdeeds of his life, trying to ignore the tremendous shadow these cast on his art.
I continue with a close analysis of the early chapters of the novel, paying especially close attention to the narrator's first encounters with Catherine.
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22 Jul 2026
A Farewell to Arms, Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2
I'm excited to begin a multiple-episode close reading of A Farewell to Arms. Look for new episodes to drop regularly in the coming weeks, as I take a close look at one of my favorite Hemingway novels.
12 Jan 2025
Episode 11, "A Way You'll Never Be"
In this episode, I take a deep dive into a Nick Adams Story, "A Way You'll Never Be," in which Hemingway looks to some of the cataclysmic events of World War I that left Nick (and other veterans) so emotionally scarred--something we clearly saw in season 1 with stories like "Soldier's Home" and "Big Two-Hearted River."
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*Here is a link to the song, "The Young Recruit" (https://youtu.be/p01m969-LNc?si=NqVZqAeZWphJkAq4) I use in this episode
30 Oct 2023
Episode 10: "Big Two-Hearted River Part 2"
With this episode, I conclude my look (for now) at In Our Time. You can make a contribution to the show HERE (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arnold-sabatelli/support). You can also make a one-time contribution and Buy me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arniesabat7). Books referenced in the podcast can be purchased HERE (https://bookshop.org/shop/journeycasts) (and I will receive a small percentage of the sale). I also reference an essay of mine in this episode, which you can find HERE (https://open.substack.com/pub/arniesabatelli/p/the-fish-in-the-log-part-i?r=1nwa2p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web).
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2 Aug 2023
Episode 9 "Big Two-Hearted River Pt. I
I take a close look at the first part of Hemingway's masterful story, "Big Two-Hearted River," that ends the collection, In Our Time, reflecting on the way the story ties together many earlier stories from the collection and again focuses on the power of artistic understanding to help contend with complex human emotion.
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7 Apr 2023
Episode 8: "Soldier's Home"
In this episode I take a deep dive into "Soldier's Home," Hemingway's complex look at PTSD, likely derived from his own experiences of being wounded in WWI, and suddenly being back home in Oak Park.
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10 Feb 2023
Episode 7: "Cross Country Snow"
A close look at another Nick Adams story from In Our Time.
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14 Dec 2022
Episode 6, "Up in Michigan."
In this story, which Hemingway was not allowed to include in the collection In Our Time due to its subject matter, date rape, we find a story in a kind of dialogue with "Cat in the Rain" and "The End of Something," and the continued development of the theme of women as artists in the collection.
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6 Oct 2022
Episode 5: "The Battler"
This nightmarish story offers readers a way to think about what lies at the heart of human violence, underscoring the essential need for Jungian balance between the "Anima" and "Animus."
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17 Sept 2022
Episode 4: "A Cat in the Rain"
A close look at Hemingway's "A Cat in the Rain," also from In Our Time. Here we find one of the most emphatic examples of a character awakening to the power of artistic expression.
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7 Sept 2022
Episode 3: "Indian Camp"
A close look at the earliest "Nick Adams" story, "Indian Camp," in which we find Nick awakening into a deep understanding of the power of artistic language.
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25 Aug 2022
Episode 2: "The End of Something"
For this episode, I take a close look at "The End of Something" from Hemingway's first major work of fiction, In Our Time. This story bears a range of striking similarities to "Hills Like White Elephants," so listening to Episode 1 will help, though isn't necessary. I see this story as a cautionary tale about the dangers of looking for short-term, "fun" responses to our relationships rather than embracing the more complex and more rewarding deep relationships with each other and with the world.
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23 Aug 2022
Episode 1: "Hills Like White Elephants"
For my inaugural podcast on the works of Ernest Hemingway, I will analyze one of his most often anthologized stories, "Hills Like White Elephants." Working from a close look at point of view, I explore the way the story helps us to think deeply about how art helps us to express and more fully comprehend complex human emotions.
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22 Aug 2022
Hemingway Word for Word (Trailer)
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