This paper examines how Ernest Hemingway portrayed the virtues and defects of the world through the character of Nick Adams in his short stories. In many respects, Nick Adams represented the main dilemmas of the human condition. One could see that Hemingway's own personal therapy was, in some respects, embodied in the painful memories that he tried to purge through Nick Adams. 7 pgs. 0 f/c. 6b.