Perspectives

Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots” is an important short story, especially if we regard it as the beginning of another short story called “Indian Camp”. As the text illustrates Hemingway’s journalistic style and as it is based on Hemingway’s own experiences as a child, we believe the following …

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Literary period

The short story “Three Shots” was published in 1925, which makes it modernist in style. Literary modernism originates in the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and it represents a movement that detaches itself from tradition and that is dominated by experimentation. Although the short story “Three Shots” follows a traditional plot line, the focus of the text is less on the plot and more on the inner struggles of the main character – a feature which makes the text modernist. At the …

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Works with the same theme

The theme of coming of age is explored in the short story “Indian Camp” (Contexts, p. 12), which can be seen as the sequel of “Three Shots”. In “Indian Camp”, young Nick accompanies his father to a Native American camp, where the man…

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Works by the same author

One of Hemingway’s short stories that features Nick Adams as the main character is “The End of Something”. In this story, Hemingway explores the themes of relationships and change as he follows Nick and Marjorie, a teenage…