"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway was about a man's safari in Africa. The man became injured by a thorn, and the wound became infected, because of his remote location he was unable to get treatment and it was slowing killing him. He was with a women, with whom he argued quite a bit. While he was stranded and dying, he began to reflect on his life. He had a lot of regrets about his life. You could even go as far as to say that at this point in his life, Harry is a man of regrets.

He regrets that he didn't live his life in a way in which he would have lived up to his potential. This played out in several ways throughout the expression of his thoughts in the story. He believed that he had "killed his talent" (1075). This death of his talent a provided him with a blanket of loneliness that stayed with him. According to Harry, he had "failed to kill his loneliness."(1075). Tied into this lonely regret was another element of regret about his inability to hold on to love and relationships. His perception of the problem was that "He had loved too much, demanded too much, and wore it out."(1079) In a sense his regrets could be summarized as a feeling that he just hadn't quite lived up to his potential.

The typeface played a strong role in expressing the feeling of regret presented. Henry in the italics is remembering how things used to be or specific events, whereas in the normal typeface his regret in the present moment of not writing of more of his experiences shines through. I think that this showed that his experience of dying impacted his view on the world and himself, which was interesting.