Earnest Hemingway
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Earnest Hemingway
As one of the 20th century's most important and influential writers. His writings drew heavily on his own experiences for his writing. His writing reflected his trouble with relating to women and his tendency to treat them as objects, as he had four marriages and countless affairs, highlighting his theme of alienation and disconnection. Now here is why he is what he is by writing about what he was.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Dr. Clarence Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway. Oak Park was a mainly Protestant, upper middle-class suburb of Chicago that Hemingway would later refer to as a “town of wide lawns and narrow minds" (Gerogiannis 188). The second among six children, Ernest spent the first two years of his life dressed as a girl by his mother. She called him “Ernestine” and fantasized that he was the twin of his older sister, as she dressed them both in matching dresses and gave them similar hairstyles (Rozkis 233) As he grew older, however, his father stepped in and insisted that Ernest be “raised like a man,” teaching Ernest how to behave and introducing him at a young age to hunting, fishing, and boxing, all activities in which he would stay interested for the rest of his life (Gerogiannis) It is perhaps this early start at questioning his manliness and his father’s attempts to drive any femininity out of him that instilled his characteristic obsession with proving his masculinity throughout his life.
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Hemingway received his schooling in the Oak Park public school system. In high school he was mediocre at sports, joining the football, swimming, basketball, and water polo teams and serving as the track team manager (Nelson 5). He began his journalistic career writing for the school paper, the Trapeze, where he wrote his first articles and often humorous pieces in the style of Ring Lardner, a popular satirist of the time. After graduating in the spring of 1917, against the wishes of his parents, he forwent college and took a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. It is here that the seeds of his unmistakable staccato writing style were planted as he followed the rules of the Star’s stylebook exactly. “Use short sentences,” it said. “Use shor...
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes hemingway's change from writer to actual character in one of his own works, taking issue with his blustery tone, particularly when criticizing writers.
- Explains that hemingway traveled to spain in 1937 to cover the spanish civil war for the north american newspaper alliance. the civil war caused a marital war in his household as well.
- Explains that ernest hemingway is one of the 20th century's most important and influential writers. his recognizable prose style and innovative "iceberg theory" have gained him an immovable place in american literature.
- Describes ernest hemingway's life and works.
- Describes gerogiannis, nicholas, and ernest hemingway's dictionary of literary biography.
- Analyzes how ernest miller hemingway's writings reflected his trouble with relating to women and his tendency to treat them as objects.
- Narrates how hemingway's staccato writing style was planted after he resigned from the star and attempted to enlist in the army, but was rejected because of poor vision.
- Analyzes how hemingway exaggerated his heroism in retelling the events of the war, and how he became a close literary friend with fitzgerald.
- Narrates how the hemingways returned to the united states briefly in 1923 so they could resume concentrating on his writing and reconstruct the works he had lost. they met pauline pfeiffer, a fashion editor for vogue magazine.
- Narrates how hemingway divorced hadley and married pauline in 1928. after his father killed himself, he published his 1932 spanish bullfighting dissertation, death in the afternoon.
- Narrates how hemingway met martha gellhorn in key west, where they had a secret affair, before the franco-led rebels won the war, and he wrote for whom the bell tolls.
- Narrates how hemingway's story, the old man in the sea, won him the pulitzer prize.
- Narrates how hemingway and mary vacationed in east africa in 1954. the plane crashed and he broke through the door to escape. he was unable to attend the ceremonies in sweden.
- Cites nelson, raymond s. ernest hemingway: life, work, and criticism.
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- Explains that ernest hemingway was one of these influential authors. he expressed his intense mental and emotional insecurities through subtle metaphors that bluntly showed problems with commitment to women and proving his masculinity to others.
- Explains that ernest hemingway was born on july 21, 1899, in cicero, illinois. he spent most of his young years with his father, where he learned things that are necessary for a "man" to know.
- Analyzes how ernest's mother, grace, treated him as a girl, and made him into man by his father, created an odd hatred/fear of women, especially towards his mother.
- Narrates how ernest's interest in writing and his distinct straight-to-the-point style of writing was first introduced here. becoming known for his talented writing soon got him his first job as a cub reporter
- Narrates how ernest enlists in the army during world war i to serve as an ambulance driver in italy. he married his first love during the war, hadley richardson.
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- Analyzes how francis' lack of courage pertains to hemingway's fear of not being able to prove his masculinity.
- Analyzes how hemingway expresses his mind in "up in michigan" about a controversial romantic encounter and the dread that results from it.
- Analyzes how jim and liz play to established gender stereotypes. jim is a blacksmith, while liz is in the kitchen. hemingway gives us his preconceived notions on gender.
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- Opines that ernest hemingway, one of the most influential american authors of 20th century, has cast a shadow of control over the works and lifestyles of enumerable modern authors and journalists.
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- Explains that hemingway began working for the kansas city star as a reporter at 18, his uncle managing to arrange the job for him. his hallmarked austere approach to literature has been mimicked by literary giants such as james joyce and brett easton ellis.
- Explains that ernest served as an ambulance driver in italy during world war i. his experiences were used as a blueprint for his acclaimed novel, a farewell to arms.
- Narrates how hemingway fell in love with a red cross nurse, agnes von kurowsky, but they never met again. this made him insecure and detrimental to his relationships.
- Narrates how hemingway went on a fishing and camping trip with friends to michigan's upper peninsula. the trip inspired the short story, big two-hearted river.
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- Analyzes how hemingway met emily hadley richardson in the early 1920s and married the 29-year-old a year later. the couple moved back to the western hemisphere with the birth of their first son, john "bumby"
- Explains that hemingway and pfeiffer met at a mutual friend's house in paris and shared deep feelings towards each other.
- Analyzes how hemingway's marriage with martha gellhorn was the unhappiest out of his four marriages.
- Analyzes how hemingway's depiction of women in his literary works was influenced and inspired by agnes von kurowsky, the u.s. red cross nurse.
- Analyzes how caroline moorhead discusses her book on martha gellhorn. oliver, charles m. ernest hemingway a to z: the essential reference to the life and work.
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- Opines that ernest hemingway's works, as well as his life, have been in question to the realities and fallacies, which he laid forth.
- Explains that ernest hemingway's "a farewell to arms" has been surrounded by controversy among literary, as well as historical scholars regarding his inspiration for the famous novel.
- Explains that ernest hemingway's inspiration for "a farewell to arms" can be found in his relationship with?anges, the amer. nurse, who was a love interest and nurse at the hospital that he recuperated at after being injured by machine gun fire.
- Analyzes the similarities between hemingway's people and his fictitious characters, including lieutenant henry, the main character of "a farewell to arms".
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- Describes how his wife was looking out of the window. it was quite dark now and still.
- Narrates how she wants a cat, but she can't get one.
- Analyzes how george does not recognize what his wife is asking for, but shows that he is in control by telling her to shut up when she speaks too much and blatantly ignores her desires.
- Analyzes how hemingway's "hills like white elephants" depicts women taking men away from their attention and freedom.
- Opines that jig wouldn't mind it. it's just to let it go.
- Analyzes how hemingway tries to simplify how easy the operation will be by holding (or ignoring depending on you take) this conversation, and recognizes the dialog in which the female character uses manipulation.
- Opines that people don't have to be afraid. they've known lots of people.
- Opines that if one doesn't want to, he doesn’t have to.
- Opines that if we made this trip, there would be none of that.
- Opines that the trip was spoiled.
- Describes ernest hemingway's the short stories: the first forty-nine (1921-1938).
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway, an american novelist, writes in a plain, forceful prose style characterized by simple sentences and few adjectives. he reveals his thoughts on women through his short stories and ironic situations.
- Opines that they want to eat at a table with their own silver and candles, and brush their hair out in front of the mirror.
- Analyzes how hemingway uses manipulation in his short story "the short happy life of francis macomber."
- Analyzes how macomber's low self-esteem and his wife’s relentless critique and manipulation force him into a crippling emotional status, which ultimately limits his ability to attain his full potential.
1968 wordsRead More - Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayMeter, M. An Analysis of the Writing Style of Ernest Hemingway. Texas: Texas College of Arts and Industries, 2003.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that meter, m. an analysis of the writing style of ernest hemingway.
- Analyzes hemingway's 'hills like white elephants' story about an american and a girl named jig.
- Analyzes how hemingway paves the two terms in the title of the short story and makes it so (but only after our long deliberation) the reader actually easy.
- Concludes that the short story "hills like white elephants" contains symbolism to a high degree.
1361 wordsRead More - Wyatt, David M. "Hemingway's Uncanny Beginnings." The Georgia Review Summer 1977: 476-501. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center. Web. 28 Mar. 2014. .
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how hemingway's relationship issues grew out of the strained relationship he had with his parents. his strict, doctor, christian, disciplinarian father nurtured his love of sports and the outdoors, which defined him and his writing.
- Analyzes how the relationship between narrator jake and lady brett, a type of "new woman," arguably offers brett empowerment in promiscuity.
- Analyzes how john steinbeck felt the war's repercussions most strongly through the great depression which became a major influence in many of his works.
- Compares steinbeck's cynical view of life with that of hemingway, who was considered attractive.
- Explains that world war i and the economy. american decades. ed. judith s. baughman, et al.
- Cites wyatt, david m., "hemingway's uncanny beginnings." the georgia review summer 1977: 476-501.
- Analyzes how the first world war and the great depression changed the way the world viewed america. hemingway and steinbeck grew up in an america that struggled through the effects of the war.
- Analyzes how hemingway's 'the sun also rises' is narrated by american expatriate jake barnes. both are wwi veterans working as journalists in france.
- Analyzes how steinbeck, like hemingway, placed much of his fiction in regions he was familiar with.
- Analyzes bradley, jacqueline, and gerogiannis, nicholas. "ernest hemingway." american writers in paris, 1920-1939.
- Explains nagel, james, and martine's "ernest hemingway." the dictionary of literary biography vol. 9. literature resource center.
- Analyzes von cannon's "traumatizing arcadia: postwar pastoral in the sun also rises." the hemingway review 32.1 (2012): 57.
2141 wordsRead More - The Life and Work of Ernest Hemmingwayanalytical essayWalsh, john. "Being Ernest: John Walsh unravels the mystery behind Hemingway's suicide." The Independent 11 june 2011.Web. 9 May 2014.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that ernest miller hemmingway's parents were physically and mentally abusive to him, and his mother was controlling and mental abusive by dressing him like a girl.
- Narrates how hemmingway served in the italian army as an ambulance driver and fell in love with a nurse, but she left him for another man. he returned to the united states to finish recovering from his war injuries.
- Narrates how hemmingway's first novel, "the sun also rises," portrays the life style of postwar disillusionment of his generation.
- Describes how hemmingway lived an exciting and adventurist life, even surviving multiple plane crashes. he had numerous health problems, alcoholism, and bouts of depression, but he continued to write until his mind started to betray him.
- Analyzes how hemmingway lived his life with passion and excitement and wrote many great stories. his key west homes is now a museum that still contains his furniture and artifacts
- Analyzes how the title of the first story, "hills like white elephants", gives an expectation that it possibly has to do with traveling through africa.
- Analyzes how the story reflects on hemmingway's real life in some ways, such as the importance of being able to drink and travel the world. the tone is somber due to the conflict of the man wanting the woman to get an abortion.
- Analyzes how the story "the sun also rises" is an inspirational story about someone going through a dark period and ending better. the setting bounces between paris and paloma, spain.
- Analyzes how hemmingway's characters are a lot like his real life associates, who were all writers and big drinkers.
- Analyzes how the protagonist character jake and brett wind up together in a cab after her failed relationship with romero. he seems cynical at this point and responds that it might have been fun.
- Opines that ernest hemmingway is one of their favorite writers, and they will definitely be reading more of his stories.
- Describes the ernest hemmingway home and museum/ the legend.
- Explains hemmingway, ernest miller, and mays, kelly j. the norton introduction to literature-shorter eleventh edition.
- Explains shmoop editorial team's "the sun also rises summary."
- Explains the shmoop editorial team's "hills like white elephants analysis."
- Analyzes a&e networks television's "ernest miller hemmingway" on biography.com.
- Analyzes how walsh, john, unravels the mystery behind hemingway's suicide.
1819 wordsRead More - Hemingwayanalytical essayHemingway In one of the chapters in the book entitled “Hemingway” the author Leo Lania tries to explain Hemingway and his work. He explains that a key to understanding Hemingway can be found in the characters of his heroes and in their beliefs. The leading character “appears in various guises in the different novels and short stories but basically he is always the same type”(Lania8).Whether ordinary soldier or general, smuggler or gambler, Negro or journalist he is a man scarred by experience. He has always been gravely wounded, physically or mentally, either during the war, in the sports arena, during childhood, in fight for existence. At some time or other something terrible has happened to him and the memory persecutes him.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how leo lania tries to explain hemingway and his work in one of the chapters in the book entitled "hem
- Analyzes how hemingway's main character is an american from the middle west. he needs a moral code and practical experience to master life.
- Analyzes how hemingway used the sun also rises as a source for a farewell to arms.
- Explains adair, william, "the sun also rises: the source of a farewell to arms." university press of kentucky, 1999.
- Explains that hemingway's views of honor and heroes are limited and childish, and the role played by women in his work is significant.
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