The Revolutionist Analysis

World War I has recently ended, but conflict clearly isn't over in Europe. The comrade has just escaped some brutality in Budapest, and he's eager to see a world revolution. In other words, there i...

You might think that in a story as short as "The Revolutionist" the first-person narration style would be utilized to help readers dive into the narrative as quickly as possible—you know, to real...

There are several different genres that we might associate with "The Revolutionist." First, it clearly has an adventurous element to it: The comrade has narrowly escaped physical danger and is unde...

If you don't pay close attention, you might almost think that the story is narrated in the third-person because the narrator expresses almost no emotion or opinion about the comrade. Sure, he tells...

"The Revolutionist" is eight paragraphs long, and three of these paragraphs are only one sentence long a piece. So yeah, this one's short. And the language Hemingway uses is simple. You might even...

Oh, we love the title of this one—it's so tricky. See, we have two characters: the comrade and the narrator. And one of them—the comrade—has so much faith in a coming communist revolution. We...

The ending is remarkably abrupt: "The last I heard of him the Swiss had him in jail near Sion" (8). This abruptness draws attention to the fact that the narrator's (and our) knowledge of the comrad...

Hemingway's language is known for being very simple and accessible. No fancy words or complex sentence structure to contend with here—it's just not Hemingway's style. But that doesn't mean he isn...

Have Oilcloth Ticket, Will TravelThe narrator gives us a quick background of the unnamed comrade, explaining that he's escaping some nasty stuff in Budapest and traveling the railroads in Italy wit...

Did you know that Hemingway was a journalist, an ambulance driver, and an avid hunter and fisherman? Dude was all over the place. (Source) Guess who won a Nobel Prize for Literature? Yeah… Hemin...

Unless two dudes exchanging little more than a few words about art and revolution gets your blood pumping, there are probably no stories less sexy than this one. Sorry to disappoint.

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