Publication History
According to notes on the manuscript, Hemingway wrote “The End of Something” in March 1924. Paul Smith claimed that based on the different kinds of paper used for the manuscript, it is possible that the story had “an earlier start”. “The End of Something” was published in 1925 in Hemingway’s first collection of short stories, In Our Time. In May 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald reviewed In Our Time for Bookman, and called “The End of Something” “something fundamentally new.” Critics received the entire collection well, and “The End of Something” has been called a “harbinger of stories to come” because of its plot involving a man choosing the companionship of another man over the companionship of a woman, which became a common theme in Hemingway’s stories.
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