Analysis of symbols in The Snow Of Kilimanjaro
Abstract: In The Snow of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway uses a lot of symbols to present the track of Harry’s death. This passage will analyze the various symbols in this story.
Key words: Ernest Hemingway, The Snow Of Kilimanjaro, symbols
Introduction: This story documents the first peak of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania Africa, in god's house near the top of which there is a dry dead leopard. What did the leopard look for? No one knows. This strange story draws out the whole passage. Male writers, harry took his rich widows wife Helen to travel to Tanzania, hunting. The truck broke down in the wilderness and Harry’s leg was stabbed by the thorn, gangrened. He lied on the cot waiting for aircraft rescue. Before death, he reviewed his life, and sometimes abused Helen. Then came the friends driving the plane, taking him to the nearest city. In the flight, he saw the magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro, which is actually seen when he was dying in the dream. Ernest Hemingway used the technique of stream of consciousness to flashback writer’s life, including actor career, the experience of first love, war, sluggish of the writer. There are many images in this story. And each of them has its own symbol. 1. The symbols of the animals in the story.
Animals is the most important symbols in the story “The Snows Of Kilimanjaro,” in which Hemingway uses two different animals to symbolize both the type of person Harry wishes he is and the type of person he has actually become. The leopard is seen only in the epigraph at the opening of the story, but its presence is extremely important to the rest of the story. Here the reader is told the legend of the leopard carcass found at the top of Kilimanjaro. The leopard, it seems, was seeking the summit, known as “the House of God”. A leopard has associations for the reader of grace, speed,