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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.

Here you can read an extract from our study guide:

While George is smoking modern cigars and offering them to the Native Americans, the woman’s husband in the upper bunk smokes a pipe. This contrast possibly serves as a symbol of the difference in wealth and status between white Americans and Native Americans. This seems to be further underlined by the skills of the doctor which may form a contrast to the husband lying immobilized in a bunk after having cut his food in an accident.

The same goes for the jackknife which Nick’s father uses to deliver the baby and the razor blade which the husband uses to kill himself. They pose another contrast and may symbolize how violence exists in death as well as in life. One is used to bring life into the world, and the other is used to end a life. Hemingway seems to be conveying the message that human existence is violent and painful from the beginning to the end.

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