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	Both authors saw literature as a weapon against cultural stagnation. Hemingway urged readers to break free from what they were taught to feel and create their own standards (Death 5, 10). Mailer put it succinctly: literature should “clarify a nation’s vision of itself” (Cannibals and Christians 98).		Both authors saw literature as a weapon against cultural stagnation. Hemingway urged readers to break free from what they were taught to feel and create their own standards (Death 5, 10). Mailer put it succinctly: literature should “clarify a nation’s vision of itself” (Cannibals and Christians 98).


	This is not a passive project. It’s revolutionary. Mailer’s brand of existentialism, infused with American grit and spirituality, aimed to shake readers into greater awareness. Hemingway did the same, albeit with a more stoic subtlety.		This is not a passive project. It’s revolutionary. Mailer’s brand of existentialism, infused with American grit and spirituality, aimed to shake readers into greater awareness. Hemingway did the same, albeit with a more stoic subtlety.