Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest (Miller) Hemingway
1899-1961
Entry Updated : 08/01/2001
Birth Place: Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Death Place: Ketchum, Idaho, United States
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Personal Information: Family: Born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park Illinois,
United States; committed suicide, July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, United
States son of Clarence Edmunds (a physician) and Grace (a music teacher; maiden name, Hall) Hemingway: married Hadley Richardson, September 3, 1921
(divorced March 10, 1927); married Pauline Pfeiffer (a writer), May 10,
1927 (divorced November 4, 1940); married Martha Gellhorn (a writer), November
21, 1940 (divorced December 21, 1945); married Mary Welsh (a writer), March
14, 1946; children: (first marriage) John Hadley Nicanor; (second marriage)
Patrick, Gregory. Education: Educated in Oak Park, IL.
Career: Writer, 1917-61. Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO, cub reporter,
1917-18; ambulance driver for Red Cross Ambulance Corps in Italy, 1918-19;
Co-operative Commonwealth, Chicago, writer, 1920-21; Toronto Star, Toronto,
Ontario, covered Greco-Turkish War, 1920, European correspondent, 1921-24; covered Spanish Civil War for North American Newspaper Alliance, 1937-38; war correspondent in China, 1941; war correspondent in Europe, 1944-45.
Awards: Pulitzer Prize, 1953, for The Old Man and the Sea; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954; Award of Merit from American Academy of Arts & Letters,
1954.
WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:NOVELS
* The Torrents of Spring: A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race (parody), Scribner, 1926, published with a new introduction by David Garnett, J. Cape, 1964, reprinted, Scribner, 1972.
* The Sun Also Rises, Scribner, 1926, published with a new introduction by Henry Seidel Canby, Modern Library, 1930, reprinted, Scribner, 1969
(published in England as Fiesta, J. Cape, 1959).
* A Farewell to Arms, Scribner, 1929, published with new introductions by Ford Madox Ford, Modern Library, 1932, Robert Penn Warren, Scribner,
1949, John C. Schweitzer, Scribner, 1967.
* To Have and Have Not, Scribner, 1937, J. Cape, 1970.
* For Whom the Bell Tolls, Scribner, 1940, published with a new introduction by Sinclair Lewis, Princeton University Press, 1942, reprinted, Scribner,
1960.
* Across the River and Into the Trees, Scribner, 1950, reprinted, Penguin with J. Cape, 1966.
* The Old Man and the Sea, Scribner 1952.
* Islands in the Stream, Scribner, 1970.
* The Garden of Eden, Scribner, 1986.
* Patrick Hemingway, editor, True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir,
Simon & Schuster, 1999. SHORT STORIES, EXCEPT AS INDICATED
* Three Stories & Ten Poems, Contact (Paris), 1923.
* In Our Time, Boni & Liveright, 1925, published with additional material and new introduction by Edmund Wilson, Scribner, 1930, reprinted, Bruccoli,
In this essay, the author
- Describes three novels: the sun also rises, a farewell to arms and the old man.
- Opines that there was always one true sentence that they knew or had seen or heard someone.
- Explains that tarzan hemingway was a marlin or lion he had just landed or shot.
- Narrates how he wrote good and lived.
- Explains that to set things down simple and right is to hold a standard of one's own nature.
- Narrates how they found that they could cut out that scrollwork or ornament and throw it away.
- Describes the emotions which made the emotion and which would be valid in a year or ten years.
- Opines that it is only of what is there, and not, as in the less successful moments, of all.
- Narrates how a critic once asked him to hear english as it was spoken around him.
- Narrates how he came to write the old man and the sea.
- Opines that deciding not to be a bitch is what we have instead of god.
- Opines that world war i has destroyed belief in the goodness.
- Analyzes how violence plays a minimal role in works such as the sun also rises.
- Analyzes the wars in a farewell to arms and for whom the bell tolls, and the hostility.
- Opines that honour is personal honour: by what shall a man live, by who he shall be.
- Describes the hero as a wounded but bears his wounds in silence, who is defeated.
- Explains that they have no thoughts of reaching a state. they do not want to better the world.
- Analyzes how in the old man and the sea cannot understand why he must kill the great.
- Opines that we do not try to kill the sun, moon, or stars. it is enough to summary:
- Analyzes the eternal flow of the gulf stream and in the permanence of his own works.
- Narrates how he endures the sea, dying as the year is dying, and fishing in september.
- Describes man and the sea, which is considered to be among his finest works.
- Explains that his early work had a clean, hard objectivity: it did not engage in meaningless.
- Describes donaldson, scott, by force of will: the life in art and art in the united states.
- Describes the rules of writing a true sentence.
- Explains that they decided to write one story about each thing they knew about, and it was good.
- Describes lady's moral code in death in the afternoon.
- Analyzes how of the bell has yet to integrate his individuality.
- Opines that the death of the old man will not bring an end to the cycle.
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- Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayErnest M. Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was a novelist and short story writer, who became well known for the passion that he used in all his writings. Many of his works are regarded as classics of American Literature, and some have even been made into motion pictures. The Old Man and the Sea, which is the story about an old Cuban fisherman, was published in 1952. Because of this creation, in 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that ernest miller hemingway was a novelist and short storywriter who became well known for his passion in all his writings. many of his works are regarded as classics of american literature and some have even been made into motionpictures.
- Explains that hemingway was awarded the nobel prize inliterature in 1954. he graduated from oak park high school in 1917 and became a reporter for the kansas city star.
- Describes how hemingway was encouraged in creative work by the american expatiate writers ezra pound and gertrude stein. during world war ii, he became a reporter for the united states first army.
- Narrates how a friend of his in cuba told him about an old man that lived nearby, which inspired him to write the nobel prize-winning short story, the old man and the sea.
- Analyzes how hemingway's economical writing style often seems simple and childlike, but his method is calculated and used to complex effect. he provided detached descriptions ofaction using simple nouns and verbs to capture the scenes.
- Analyzes how hemingway used small phrases to describe his characters. his writing tried to express a feeling that would capture the reader's attention and help them visualize the scene as if theywere really there.
- Explains that hemingway's style of writing has had an enormous influence on american writers.
- Analyzes how hemingway's novels, "to have and have not" and "for whom the bell tolls" dealt with political injustices.
- Opines that ernest hemingway was one of the best novelette.
- Opines that ernest hemingway is my second favorite author afterchristopher pike, and that each book should be a new beginning.
- Argues that the quote tries to tell other writers to begin their latestliterature with the same passion as the first time they ever did.
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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.
3008 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.
928 wordsRead More - Hemingwayanalytical essayFrom the time Ernest Hemingway became a renowned author, his works, as well as his life, have been analyzed by many. Under such scrutiny, many aspects of Hemingway’s works and life experiences have been in question to the realities and fallacies, which he laid forth. Much of Hemingway’s life, especially his time volunteering as an ambulance driver in Europe, has been in question to the true validity of his myth as a true adventurer and hero. However, as I have found, much of the mythology surrounding Hemingway is very true indeed, which leads me to believe that he did not embellish his life but rather used his experiences to create some of the greatest works of literature to be written throughout the twentieth century.
In this essay, the author
- 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".
475 wordsRead More - Earnest Hemingwayanalytical essayEarnest Hemingway Earnest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park Illinois. After graduating from high school, he got a job at a paper called "Kansas City Star". Hemingway continually tried to enter the military, but his messed up eye, hindered this task. Hemingway had managed to get a job driving an American Red Cross ambulance. During this expedition, he was injured and hospitalized.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that hemingway was injured and hospitalized during this expedition. he had an crush for a nurse at that hospital, named agnes von kurowsky.
- Describes how wrote a book called 'whom the bell tolls' in 1940.
- Analyzes how was fascinated by wars in 'a farewell to arms'.
- Opines that many people believe that hemingway, did his writing at this period of his life.
623 wordsRead More - Earnest Hemingwayanalytical essayEarnest Hemingway was well known as a strong writer, but what many readers of his do not know about is the inspiration he gained throughout his life and experiences that made him a very prolific writer. There are events in his life from childhood to adulthood that helped accustom to his very unique style of writing. Hemingway was a different kind of writer than others; he often used reoccurring words of specific diction in order to create an effect on the reader. Every single one of his books were based off of something, as Hemingway was not the type of writer who sat in a log cabin writing all day. Hemingway was a man of great experiences, and his life was full of many inspirations that had helped attribute to his novels and unique writing style. Every idea of his was based off of personal experience, which he found inspiring. This is what makes him such a unique and original writer in my mind, due to his amazing life experiences.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that earnest hemingway was a strong writer, but the inspiration he gained through his life and experiences made him prolific. he used reoccurring words of specific diction to create an effect.
- Explains that hemingway's mother was a classically trained musician who paid the mortgage for her and influenced him with his dedication and commitment to writing.
- Analyzes how hemingway's writing style and writing structure came from his parents, his high school education, and his first job as a journalist.
- Analyzes how hemingway's world war 1 experience inspired the whole of a farewell to arms, in which he describes his opinions of war and love open minded while following the character henry.
- Analyzes how hemingway's famous novel, a farewell to arms, is based off of his relationship with a nurse at the red cross hospital that he stayed at.
- Concludes that all hemingway's writing has been derived from nothing else but personal experience. he is the type of person who has many stories to tell.
1334 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway Essayanalytical essayThroughout the 20th century there were many influential pieces of literature that would not only tell a story or teach a lesson, but also let the reader into the author’s world. Allowing the reader to view both the positives and negatives in an author. Ernest Hemingway was one of these influential authors. Suffering through most of his life due to a disturbingly scarring childhood, he expresses his intense mental and emotional insecurities through subtle metaphors that bluntly show problems with commitment to women and proving his masculinity to others.
In this essay, the author
- 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.
- Analyzes how hemingway's experiences in world war i, his manipulative mother, and scarring childhood influenced his writing. he was embarrassed and angered by his childhood.
- Analyzes how hemingway's fears of women, proving his masculinity, and problems with dedicating himself fully to one person spilled into many of his short stories.
- 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.
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway pushed himself to the brink of depression to prove his masculinity to others, hoping it would one day reverse the effects of his traumatic childhood experience.
1197 wordsRead More - The Life of Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayThe Life of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway relied on experiences and the time period that he wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway used symbolism and irony to express his own experiences that he went through after the war, in this novel. Gertrude Stein named the generation of adults that lived during World War I, "The Lost Generation. "People thought the phrase holds true to some people who fought or were involved in the war. Hemingway quotes Stein in passages saying "The world remains and the sun continues to rise and set.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway relied on experiences and the time period that he wrote the sun also rises. gertrude stein named the generation of adults that lived during world war i, "the lost generation."
- Analyzes how hemingway's narrator, jake barnes, is the heart and soul of the book. brett, the beautiful, english woman he adores, provides the glamour of his struggle to deal with his injury and their relationship.
- Explains that ernest miller hemingway was born on july 21, 1899, in oak park, illinois, a conservative upper middle-class suburb of chicago.
- Explains that hemingway became the european correspondent for the toronto daily star and moved to paris with his wife in december 1921. he became friends with many prominent writers and artists living in post-war paris.
- Analyzes how hemingway's marriage fell apart and he re-married to a fashion reporter. his father committed suicide in 1928 after developing serious health and financial problems.
- Argues that robert cohn is the character that hemingway would like to be. he is a light drinker and believes in the romantic pre-war ideals of love.
- Analyzes how the characters in the sun also rises wander through endless, drunken procession of parties, cafes, and sexual affairs in a desperate search for meaning in their lives.
1011 wordsRead More - Hemingway and Fitzgeraldanalytical essayHemingway and Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the parties of one of the most famously infamous relationships in literary history met for the first time in late April 1925 at The Dingo Bar, a Paris hangout for the bohemian set. In his novel A Moveable Feast (published posthumously) Hemingway describes his first impressions of Fitzgerald: “The first time I ever met Scott Fitzgerald a very strange thing happened. Many strange things happened with Scott, but this one I was never able to forget. He had come into the Dingo bar in the rue Delambre where I was sitting with some completely worthless characters, had introduced himself and introduced a tall, pleasant man who was with him as Dunc Chaplin, the famous pitcher… I much preferred him to Scott…
In this essay, the author
- Explains that although fitzgerald was the more successful and well-known of the two at the time they met, he adopted a "younger brother" role in relationship to hemingway.
- Explains that this website gives a thorough description of the story behind the publication of sar as well as links to other helpful hemingway sites.
- Opines that kelly dupuis is a great website that has detailed information about hemingway's literary and personal life. the research done by bruccoli and others makes the site clear and accessible.
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway and f. scott fitzgerald met in 1925 at the dingo bar, a paris hangout for the bohemian set.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald and hemingway bounced ideas off each other and had lively correspondences through writing. the friction between their families was part of the reason the two met in person so infrequently.
- Explains that bruccoli, matthew j. fitzgerald and hemingway: a dangerous friendship.
1438 wordsRead More - Essay On Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayHemingway: Ernest Hemingway was one of America’s best authors. He started out writing many articles, and then even novels fro some of his lifetime experiences. Hemingway was a great influence on American society. Although Hemingway had many misfortunes in his life, he was a great writer. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 to Clarence and Grace Hemingway in Oak Park, Illinois.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that hemingway was one of america's best writers. he started out writing articles, and then wrote novels based on his lifetime experiences.
- Explains that hemingway's uncle tyler was inspirational to him as a teenager growing up. he was rejected for having poor eyesight, and instead of giving up, he joined the italian army as an ambulance driver.
- Narrates how hemingway moved to toronto, where he met his first wife, hadley richardson, and they were married in 1921. his devotion to writing led to his divorce, but pauline pfeiffer was not affected by this divorce.
- Narrates how hemingway returned to war in 1937 when he took on a job reporting about the spanish american war, divorced pauline pfeiffer, and was part of the d-day invasion.
- Explains that hemingway won the pulitzer prize for the old man and the sea in 1953, and a year later, the nobel prize in literature, as well as the american academy of arts and letters award of merit.
- Explains that hemingway's major influences include the reflection of time, his experience on the battlefield, fishing, bullfighting, and other sports he enjoyed himself.
- Analyzes how agori kroupi makes a connection between fishing and bullfighting with certain symbols in christianity, implying that hemingway did use religion in his work.
- Analyzes how hemingway's obsession with death began when his father committed suicide. he uses the human struggle with love, loss, separation, politics, and isolation in his writings.
- Explains that hemingway's least successful novel was across the river and into the trees, while islands in the stream was posthumously published.
- Analyzes how hemingway had a positive effect on society and people. in soldiers home, he emphasizes the mistreatment of soldiers when they return home from war.
- Opines that although hemingway had many misfortunes in his life, he was a great writer.
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