Why did Hemingway write several stories about Nick and George, but there was no connection between them …
Indian camp (from our time)
Three shots
Doctors and wives (from our time)
Ten Indians (from men without women)
The Indians moved away.
The light of the world (from the winner who has nothing)
Boxer (from our time)
Black boy (from a man without a woman)
The last party is clean.
Cross the Mississippi River
On the eve of login
Nick sat with his back against the church wall (from our time)
I lay down (from a man without a woman)
"You'll never do that" (from Winner with Nothing)
In a foreign land (from a man without a woman)
Big Two-hearted River Part I (from In Our Time)
Big Two-hearted River Part II (from our time)
On writing
Forgetting a Love (from In Our Time)
Three days of strong winds (from our time)
People who spend the summer
Wedding anniversary
Alpine pastoral (from a man without a woman)
Cross-country skiing in our time
Waiting all day (from Winner with Nothing)
Two generations of father and son (from the winner who has nothing)
In fact, Hemingway wrote 26 short stories about Nick, all of which were written around Nick. That is to say, all Nick are the same person, so they are related. So why do people think that these Nick are not related? This is because these Nick series novels are not arranged in complete chronological order or growth order, and even to a certain extent, these novels are very chaotic. For example, in Hemingway's second collection of short stories, Men Without Women, Nick first appeared as an Italian soldier, but later he became a young man in Peak Town, Illinois, and then he became a boy in Michigan, a married man in Austria and an Italian soldier. No wonder people mistakenly think that these nicks.
But if we ignore these details, we will find that these important events in Nick's life can actually constitute a biography, which is why many critics tend to study Nick's image as Hemingway's autobiography. Nick's image, from the haze of violence and indifference in childhood, to the young people's struggle in the face of war, his attempt to heal himself in his prime, his escape from love and his indulgence and paralysis in life, all secretly reveal some of Hemingway's own life experiences and inner struggles.
The two George articles written by Hemingway have little connection, but why Hemingway likes to use the name George so much is probably related to his aversion to using figurative writing. For example, the Indian camp has only two names, Nick and Uncle George, and others have no names. It can be seen that he hates to use such visualized names as father, woman and woman's husband. So he continued to write in George, which probably expressed his dislike of figurative names.