Big Two-Hearted River: Part II

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Big Two-Hearted River: Part II is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, featured in his collection "In Our Time," that continues Nick Adams’s solitary fishing trip as a meditation on healing and psychological recovery after war.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf short story
work of fiction
author Ernest Hemingway
collection In Our Time
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacter Nick Adams
firstPublicationForm short story collection
focusesOn Nick’s inner state
process of emotional stabilization
follows Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
genre literary fiction
hasPart Nick’s camp routine
Nick’s fishing on the river
includedIn 1925 edition of In Our Time
language English
literaryMovement modernism
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
literaryTechnique iceberg theory
minimalism
mainCharacter Nick Adams
motif camping
fishing
river
narrativePerspective third-person limited
partOf In Our Time
partOfSeries Nick Adams stories
protagonistStatus war veteran
relatedWork Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
other Nick Adams stories
setting Michigan wilderness
Two-Hearted River
symbolism fishing as control and order
river as emotional depth
wilderness as refuge
theme healing after war
nature as therapy
postwar dislocation
psychological recovery
solitude
trauma
timePeriodDepicted post–World War I era

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In Our Time hasPart Big Two-Hearted River: Part II
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I hasPart Big Two-Hearted River: Part II
Nick Adams appearsIn Big Two-Hearted River: Part II