Uzbekistan state university of world languages theory and practice of translation faculty

The topicality of this work lies in the inexhaustible interest in Hemingway's work, in the desire to delve deeper into the writer's artistic intentions, to understand why Hemingway brought out such ambiguous characters. The relevance implies the purpose of our work.
The aim of the work is to analyze the specifics of the artistic world of the short stories Cat in the Rain", «Hills Like White Elephants»
To reach the aim I put forward the following tasks:

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  to study the origin of short stories and its development in American Literature;
  
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  to investigate Hemingway’s’ short stories and select a several of them for analysis;
  
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  to consider the artistic method of E. Hemingway and its application in the stories in detail;
  

The object of my course paper is to reveal features of American short stories.
The subject of my course paper is the «Cat in the Rain» «Hills Like White Elephants».
Methods used during the analysis are descriptive method, comparative method, analytical method.
The theoretical value of the course paper is of this research lies in its usage for future scientific writings on the given topic: articles, thesis, essays, etc.;
The practical value of the course paper is that it can be used in courses of teaching analysis and interpretation of literary text, stylistics and etc.
The structure of course paper includes: introduction, 3 paragraphs, conclusion and list of references.
The main part includes the depiction of heroes who had lost faith in society, in ideals, in their own strength or the opportunity to find their happiness. The artistic feature of E. Hemingway's works of this period was the use of modernist techniques, primarily such as "stream of consciousness", but gradually the writer created his own, original creative method and style. Hemingway was distanced from modernism by the non-perception of the irrational; using the individual means found by representatives of this trend, he sought an answer to the problems posed by life in reality. Gradually, the subject matter expanded, the disclosure became deeper, but less explicit - ideas from the plain text passed into subtext, direct factography was obscured by a special, philosophical symbolism.
The first paragraph highlights the development of short story genre in American literature. The second paragraph focuses on Ernest Hemingway`s influence on the American Literature. While the third highlights Hemingway’s writing style in his short stories and its artistic peculiarity.