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Who is Ernest Hemingway?

Who is Ernest Hemingway?. American Modernist Writer 1899-1961 WWI Veteran Lost Generation - WWI destroyed illusion that acting morally brought about good .

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Who is Ernest Hemingway?

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  1. Who is Ernest Hemingway? • American Modernist Writer • 1899-1961 • WWI Veteran • Lost Generation- WWI destroyed illusion that acting morally brought about good. • Part of the 1920’s expatriate community in Paris: young writers coming of age during WWI. Hard for them to adjust to life in America after war. Many went back to Paris. • Pulitzer Prize 1953 • Nobel Prize 1954 • Suicide

  2. Personal Life • Avid hunter and sportsman • Traveled extensively • Never forgot WWI • Married four times, had three sons • Poor health by 1940’s • Alcoholic

  3. Hemingway’s first true love… Agnes von Kurowsky

  4. Agnes dumps Ernst for Frenchman "I'm just smashed by it...I forgot all about religion and everything else because I had Ag to worship…” A few months later Hemingway is quoted as saying “I loved her once and then she gypped me. And I don't blame her. But I set out to cauterize out her memory and I burnt it out with a course of booze and other women and now it's gone.”

  5. 1st wife Elizabeth Hadley Richardson • "Through his literary friends, he met and fell in love with another tall, lovely young woman, Hadley Richardson. She was eight years older than Hemingway..."

  6. 2nd wife Pauline Marie Pfeiffer • "Pauline was a well-educated, devout Catholic with a great job, a huge trust fund, and countless, more suitable, admirers."

  7. 3rd wife Ellis Gellhorn • "Gellhorn's marriage to Hemingway lasted five years, ending when Gellhorn left Hemingway, the only of his wives to do so."

  8. 4th wife Mary Welsh • "...a stunning blond journalist from Minnesota..."

  9. A HUGE sportsman… fishing, hunting, bull fighting, safaris- a man’s man!!!

  10. Writer • A Farewell to Arms, 1929 • For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 • Green Hills of Africa, 1935 • The Sun Also Rises, 1926 • Islands in the Stream, 1970 • The Old Man and The Sea, 1952 • To Have and Have Not, 1937 MANY collections of short stories, essays which made him MORE famous than his novels.

  11. Unlucky in love, unlucky in life.. - shot himself in the legs while trying to handle a particularly difficult catch - while duck hunting, he was hit in the eye with an oar, causing an eye infection - he hit his head on a hook which held the large -gafts, which ripped his scalp to the bone - the plane he was riding in crashed causing spinal injury and a concussion - he was burned while on safari in Africa…

  12. Depression lingers… * Mental illness lingers in Hemingway family…father, brother, sister, granddaughter all commit suicide. * Received shock treatment to combat the mental illness. * April 25, 1961 - admitted to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Did not want to go, and tried to kill himself several times by walking into the propeller of the plane that would carry him to Rochester. Tried to jump out of the plane. * By June, his doctors declared him out of danger, and he returned to his cabin in Ketchum, Idaho. * June 30, Ernest and his wife went to dinner, retired to bed early, and wished each other goodnight. Early the next morning, Ernest shot himself in the head.

  13. Major themes examined in Hemingway’s works • Relationships, religion, and war “ I question whether God does exist, the universe is indifferent. The resulting world is hostile and muddled, and without God and faith, moral values are also meaningless. The war is an example of this…” 13

  14. Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 Iceberg Principle “I always try to write on the principal of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show.” Ernest Hemingway, 1958

  15. Writing Style • Minimalist nature:avoided describing his characters' emotions and thoughts directly.Austere [stern & cold] word choice • Unvarnished descriptions (don’t try to “soften” anything) • Short, declarative sentences • Accessible language to the common reader (simple nouns & verbs) • Focus on Symbolic use 15

  16. Hemingway Code Hero • A code hero never shows emotions. • A code hero does not commit to women. • A code hero shows qualities such as bravery, adventure, and love of travel. • A code hero dislikes darkness. It symbolizes death and is a source of fear. The rite of manhood for the code hero is facing death. 5

  17. Hemingway’s Life and work summarized: If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. 17

  18. Lit Journal: The End? Describe any relationship you have had where you knew the relationship had to end. • How did you know it was THE END? Think about body language, subtle hints….. • How did you sever your ties to this person? • What emotions did you experience? • How did the other person respond to your actions/statements? Passive/Aggressive? • Was it really THE END? Or was there a second chapter to the story?

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