Comparison Between'Pale Horse, Pale Rider' By Katherine Ann Porter , And ' The Snows of Kilimanjaro' By Ernest Hemingway.

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Comparison Between‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’ By Katherine Ann Porter , And ‘ The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ By Ernest Hemingway.

This paper is going to discuss and analyze fully two short American fiction stories which are ‘Pale horse, Pale Rider’ by Katherine Ann Porter and ‘ The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ by Ernest Hemingway. By reading the bibliographies of both these authors, one finds that Porter and Hemingway have met in a certain period of their life, where they could have shared lots of ideas and agreed on lots of different issues.

By the end of reading both stories, one notices that there are lots of similarities found in both stories. One of the obviously noticed similarity is the autobiographical elements which has been enriched and elaborated on by the author’s imaginations which makes it have the reality of actual experience lived. It adds to the feelings of the authors and the people who lived at that period  and faced these kinds of crisis.

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Another similarity is the technique of switching from reality to delirious dreams/ fantasy/hallucinations and vice versa. For example in ' Pale horse, pale rider' the reader first sees Miranda in a dream where she was in her childhood home " How  I have loved this house in the morning before we all awake and tangled together like badly cast fishing lines…Too many have died in this bed already, there are far too many ancestral bones propped up on the mantelpieces,… what accumulation of storied dust never allowed to settle in peace for one moment." With this wealth of precise, vivid ...

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