Abstract

This essay explores the relationship between humans and nature in Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense.” The author argues that Hemingway’s text demonstrates the tensions between anthropocentric and ecocentric worldviews through depictions of nature that reflect and rebuff human desire. Due to its inherent anthropomorphism, language is a flawed medium for understanding the external, natural world. Yet, nature is real and best experienced through one’s body as does Nick Adams during his solo fishing trip in Michigan.

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