Reflections on death in the snows of Kilimanjaro Hemingway's snows of Kilimanjaro is the stereotype of the "lost generation" and its values. They were a generation of expatriate US writers who lived and wrote between the Great Wars and saw themselves as separate from post-war values ​​and "above" Western materialistic society and continually questioned morality and philosophy in their work. They tended to think very little of the rich. These reflections on life are clear during Harry's retrospectives throughout the story. In this overall depressing story, Harry is in Africa with his wife and a few days ago he scratched his leg and it became infected to the point of gangrene. From the beginning of the story, Harry is very aware that he will die and reflects on his life and his failure as a writer and, in a sense, as a human being." At the beginning I observed very carefully the way they navigated, in case I had I never wanted to use them in a story. Now that's funny."1 In this sentence Harry reflects on buzzards being attracted to the smell of impending death and how, among all the other things he wanted to write about and he thought he would, he would never do it. I'll do it now. There are several anecdotes throughout the story that could be entire stories on their own, but Harry never got around to writing about them, probably because he lacked confidence in himself as a writer. "But he had never written a line about it, nor about that cold, bright Christmas day with the mountains showing across the plain where Barker had flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' departure train, machine-gunning them as They scattered and ran." 2 This is one of the many experiences that the narrator has throughout his life... middle of paper......which in the end would be something as welcome as a weight lifted from his chest.Bibliography:Notes:1 Hemingway, Ernest, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," in The Norton Anthology: American Literature, Fourth Edition-Volume 2, page 1635.2 Hemingway, page 1638.3 Hemingway, page 1637.4 Hemingway, page 1637.5 Hemingway, page 1639.6 Hemingway, page 1640.7 Hemingway, page 1640.8 Hemingway , page 1634.9 Hemingway, page 1643.10 Hemingway, page 1651.11 Hemingway, page 1650-51.12 Hemingway, page 1650. Other reference material not cited. 13 Wilson, M. (2000, October 23). The Hemingway Resource Center (online). Available: http://www.lost generation.com/hembio.html14 Ogunsuyi, Dr. Austin (2001, September ). African culture (online). Available: http://africancultures.about.com/cs/customs/