Dr. Adams

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Dr. Adams is a recurring physician character in several of Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories, often depicted as Nick’s father and a figure through whom themes of life, death, and moral complexity are explored.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
physician
appearsIn Indian Camp NERFINISHED
Nick Adams stories NERFINISHED
Ten Indians NERFINISHED
The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife NERFINISHED
The End of Something NERFINISHED
The Three-Day Blow NERFINISHED
appearsInWorkBy Ernest Hemingway NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme coming of age
family tension
marital conflict
masculinity
nature of professional duty
parent–child relationships
professional detachment
suicide
violence and trauma
contrastedWith Nick Adams’s mother
createdBy Ernest Hemingway NERFINISHED
depictedAs hunter and outdoorsman
familyRelation father of Nick Adams
gender male
hasGivenName unknown
hasOccupation doctor
hasRole father figure
moral foil
vehicle for themes of life and death
vehicle for themes of moral complexity
hasSurname Adams NERFINISHED
influences Nick Adams’s moral development
Nick Adams’s view of life and death
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod modernist literature
nationality American
partOf Nick Adams cycle
portrayedAs competent physician
conflicted moral figure
emotionally distant father
pragmatic about suffering
setting rural Michigan

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Indian Camp featuresCharacter Dr. Adams