Many of Hemingway's nonfiction works and short stories as nature-oriented masterpieces. "The Last Good Country," one of Ernest Hemingway's later short stories, however, still remains to be reinterpreted as more than merely, "a metaphor for childhood innocence", and his usual "imaginative use of the natural world".

Unlike other short stories in Hemingway's early days, this unfinished story has a unique background on writing. Nick and his sister in this story are seen as indications of Hemingway in his early days. The plot of The Last Good Country was surely based on events in his life.

Nick and his younger sister Littless in The Last Good Country are seen as indications of Hemingway in his early days. The plot of The Last Good Country was surely based on events in his life. Nick and Littless, worried by the pursuit of the two hateful game wardens and a sly boy, take the precaution of bringing a gun to defend themselves, and to hunt with. As they escape into the virgin forest, however, Nick and Littless become aware of the natural abundance around them. When they see the woods and Nick says, "That's why they build cathedrals to be like this". It is natural, indeed, that the remaining part of an unfinished novel, written by a writer who had been well known to his readers and critics both as an adorer of nature and an analyst of love, could be viewed as a continued attempt to embody an Edenic ideal of nature, as well as an exemplar of his consistent repetition of precise description of nature.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.