Earnest Hemingway Essay, Research Paper

HEMINGWAY

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born at eight o’clock in the morning on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway received his formal schooling in the Oak Park public school system. The explosion knocked Hemingway unconscious, killed an Italian soldier and blew the legs off another.

As Hemingway spun his war tales Harriett couldn’t help but notice the differences between Hemingway and her own son. Hemingway took the position, which offered him time to write and a chance to work for the Toronto Star Weekly, the editor of which Ralph Connable promised to introduce Hemingway to. John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway was born on October 10, 1923 and by January of 1924 the young family boarded a ship and headed back to Paris where Hemingway would finish making a name for himself.

In recommending Hemingway to Ford, Pound said “…He’s an experienced journalist. Ford published some of Hemingway’s early stories, including “Indian Camp” and “Cross Country Snow” and generally praised the younger writer. “Big Two Hearted River” was a eureka story for Hemingway, who realized that his theory of omission really could work in the story form.

That same year Hemingway received word of his father s death by suicide.

Hemingway loved it. After A Farewell to Arms Hemingway published his 1932 Spanish bullfighting dissertation, Death in the Afternoon. Returning to fiction in 1933, Hemingway published Winner Take Nothing, a volume of short stories. In the book Hemingway harshly criticizes his supposed friends, making the reader cringe at his insensitivity. As in other Hemingway stories, a curious effect can be seen in these African tales. When you want to find the truth about Hemingway s life, look first to his fiction.

In March 1937 Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. The civil war caused a marital war in the Hemingway household as well. Hemingway had met a young writer named Martha Gellhorn in Key West and the two would go on to conduct a secret affair for almost four years before Hemingway divorced Pauline and married Martha. After returning from Spain and divorcing Pauline, Hemingway and Martha moved to a large house outside Havana, Cuba. In an insightful essay on Hemingway, E. L. Doctorow writes of Hemingway s work during the 40 s, discussing The Garden of Eden in particular. While in London Hemingway met Mary Welsh, the antithesis of Martha. For Hemingway it was an easy choice between the two and like in other wars, Hemingway fell in love with a new woman.

In late August of 1944 Hemingway and his band of irregular soldiers entered Paris. Max Perkins periodically tried to persuade Hemingway to write the story, but Hemingway felt he wasn t yet ready to write what his wife Mary would later call “poetry in prose.”

Hemingway often described competition among writers in boxing terms. Hemingway, using his head as a battering ram, broke through the main door. The crash had injured Hemingway more than most would know. In his biography of Hemingway Jeffrey Meyer lists the various injuries to the writer.