Ernest Hemingway

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Ernest Hemmingway is a masculine writer of immense emotion. He writes off of his life experiences and his feelings towards different subjects. Ernest Hemingway’s themes are virile on the surface, but when analyzed, one will find them to be romantic and sentimental.

As one will find through the reading of Hemingway’s works he is a very masculine writer. Says one critic: “Hemingway fans have long made reference to the “Hemingway Hero’s”, or the “macho men” which seem to dominate most of the author’s semi-autobiographical works”(essortment1). Brian Dennis writes: “Hemingway’s themes show part of his life. He was a man who delights in fishing, in hunting, in horseplay, and was a man filled with what used to be called animal spirits”(dennis02). Michael Reynolds states: “From 1921 to 1938 it has been the same story, love and pity and pride and loneliness concealed in a brief reportage of cruel facts”(reynolds369). Another expert explained that: “The glorification of the dangerous life of hunting and fishing is keeping Hemingway from deserving people, from writing about the life of his times”(jackson72). As for Hemingway himself he calls himself a man’s man. Michael Reynolds stated that: “The method is to effete for Mr. Hemingway, who cannot develop themes for his work without first sailing for Cape Town of chartering a fishing smack or hiring a guide to the caribou country. Hemingway stated: “Writers should work alone. They should see each other only when their work is done, and not too often then. Otherwise they become like writers in New York. All angleworms in a bottle, trying to derive knowledge and nourishment from their own contact and from the bottle”(reynolds371). “In the face of so much advise, Hemingway continued to write only about what he knows, only as he sees it, only when he wants to, that is a quality that Hemingway posses that few other writers have”(waldhorn03). “The source of his material and spring to his imagination was his own life. Issues of intellect, history, myth, and society were beside the point. It is what his eyes say and heart felt that he cured into fiction”(fenton91). Says Charles Fenton about Hemingway.

To examine the extent of the masculinity of Hemingway’s themes, one must first get to know what some critics say about t...

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...ewhat romantic and sentimental (aronowitz41). All of these facts concerning Hemingway go for not if one does not get the writer to know for oneself. He is truly a brilliant and thoughtful writer (fenton88).

Bibliography

Aronowitz, Alfred G. Ernest Hemingway, The Life and Death of a Man. Washington, DC: Lancer Books Publishing, 1961.

Day, Justin. An analysis of Ernest Hemingway. 02 Aug. 2001. http://www.teleport.com/~aaugiee/hemingway.shtml Dennis, Brian. “The True Gen, An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those who Knew Him.” Grove Press 21 July. 2001

Fenton, Charles A. The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway, the Early Years.Durham, NC: Plantin Paperbacks, 1987. (originally published, 1954).

Marx, Jeff. New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Benson J. Jackson. NC: Duke University Press, 1990. 71-77.

Reynolds, Michael. “Ernest Hemingway.” Modern Critical Views. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1985. 368-401.

Understanding The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. 01 Aug. 2001 http://ct.essortment.com/sunalsorisesu_rqek.htm Waldhorn, Arthur. A reader’s Guide to Ernest Hemingway. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1972.