3/9/15 Ernest Hemingway Short Stories Are Ehhh?

    I am on about page 120 of "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway" and I am not enjoying this book at all.  I thought it was going to have all his works, but it is literally 47 short stories from a given time period and then more stories from another time period.  When I scanned the book, one of the front pages had a list of what sounded like his books, but that is what it was, a list.  I saw The Old Man and the Sea and then the table of contents had something about the sea in the title and I assumed it was in there.
    Most of the stories are 2-5 pages long, so it is reading fairly quickly, but I don't enjoy the protagonist dying all the time.  The first 3-4 stories had the main character dying.  In the first story, his wife "accidentally" blows his head off, the next story had a young man playing at being a bullfighter, his friend ties knives to a chair and charges the kid.  He accidentally slices his artery in his arm, and kid dies.  Then there is a story of a young gal who has a crush on a Jim.  He proceeds to get drunk and give her a light raping.  Then an old man who is taking care of some animals in a war zone, he is to leave the area, but he is tired of walking, so he will just sit there, with the enemy coming over the hills.  They don't say he dies, but what are the options?
    Lace this in with some dingy broad in a hotel who sees a cat getting rained on and she decides she wants a cat.  She says it enough times and she gets a cat, lame.
    Then a kid gets tossed off a moving train, the kid follows the train tracks, runs into some hobos, they feed him and he continues on his way.
    Another one has some young men/teens getting drunk while dad is out hunting, feels a little homoerotic, with them taking their shoes off and getting warm by the fire.  One of them pushing the other to get drunk, it'll be fun, telling him he did the right thing by dumping his girlfriend.
    What is fun about two dudes sitting drunk by a fire?  If I'm getting drunk, there's gonna be some groping, otherwise, what is the point of abusing your liver, waking up with a headache, and all the other things that go with drinking?
    I may finish reading the book, but I am trying to get through a bunch of books and this one is too big, so on to the next one....