Indian Camp
This study guide will help you analyze the short story “Indian Camp” (1924) by Ernest Hemingway. The text can be found in the anthology Contexts, pp. 12-17, and we help you complete the work questions for the short story. You can also find a summary of the text, as well as inspiration for interpreting it and putting it into perspective.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American journalist and author. He served as an ambulance rescuer in World War I and then covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II as a journalist. In 1954 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hemingway was particularly known for his terse, minimalist writing style, which he learned during his time as a journalist. He committed suicide like his father after a period of increasingly poor health.
The short story “Indian Camp” is one of Hemingway’s so-called “Nick Adams” stories, which are considered to be partially autobiographical. As a boy, Hemingway sometimes accompanied his father, who was a doctor, on sick visits to the Ojibway Indians.