死亡是任何人都无法回避和超越的客观存在,它具有最大的真实性。它是当代西方文学的传统主题。对于这个问题的思考一直纠缠着海明威。从一开始评论家就注意到海明威小说的死亡主题。美国评论家H.B.Bates认为“实际上海明威只有一个主题——死亡”。某些批评家甚至把海明威称为“制造死亡的工程师”。在我看来海明威创作大量涉及死亡主题,并非作家在玩弄死亡游戏,而是对于死亡以及它与生存之间关系的不断思考。作家试图在审美活动中寻求对于死亡的 Death is an objective existence that no one can evade and surpass. It has the greatest truth. It is the traditional theme of contemporary Western literature. Thinking about this issue has been entangled with Hemingway. From the very beginning, critics have noticed the theme of death in Hemingway’s novels. According to H.B. Bates, a U.S. critic, “there is actually only one theme of Hemingway - death.” Some critics even refer to Hemingway as “the engineer who made the death”. It seems to me that Hemingway has created a great deal of death-related topics, not just writers who are playing death games, but constant thinking about death and its relationship to survival. Writers seek to seek for the death of aesthetic activities