Critics have devised the concept of Code Hero from the works of Ernest Hemingway. His realistic portrayal of the interwar period through his generic fiction has given him a prominent position in world and American literature. The heroism presented in his works is imbued with the concepts of masculinity and strength. The popular culture studies Hemingway's work in the light of the American dream, love, war, and pride and Hemingway has drenched his male characters in stoicism which nullifies any scope of flexibility in the analysis of his protagonists. But with the ever-widening field of men and masculinities, and the emergence of new theories, this paper attempts to study the characterization of fatherhood and anxious masculinity in Hemingway's short stories which form a symbolic representation of manhood and fatherhood.