Ernest Hemingway July 21, July 2, 1961

Hemingway Facts ●Part of the literary group “The Lost Generation” of the 1920’s ○Included famous writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos ●Father was a physician, taught him to hunt and fish. He committed suicide December 1928 ●Mother was a musician. Encouraged Hemingway to study the art but he hated it and he hated her ●Four marriages and each influenced his work in a different way ●Committed suicide July 1961, two weeks before his birthday ●First job as a reporter for Kansas City Star o Learned direct, simple sentences make a greater effect ●Participated in The First World War ○Arrived December 1917, came home January 1919 ●Participated in The Spanish Civil War ○During the early 1920’s, as a war correspondent ●Participated in World War II ○Spring 1944 as a reporter in Men at War

The Sun Also Rises ●In 1952, Hemingway attended the San Fermin festival in Pamplona to watch bullfights ●“Lost Generation” is really emphasized in this novel. Characters are constantly drinking, traveling, escaping their real issues ●Hemingway’s machismo is portrayed in the novel with bullfights, the need to dominate the only woman in the novel, drinking, bar fights ●F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” inspired Hemingway to write longer texts and Fitzgerald even gave him advice on how to end the novel “Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” (19) - Jake Barnes

●Boxing accident led him to volunteer as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross at the Italian front ○was injured and sent to Milan to recover where he fell in love with Agnes ●Despite his injury, he carried a wounded soldier to safety and received the Silver Medal of Valor ●Proposed to Agnes but she rejected because she was 6 years older and he was immature. Inspired “A Farewell to Arms” “Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages” (185) - Henry ●“Lost Generation” is also depicted in the novel, soldiers keep questioning their purpose in war ●Novel was finished after Hemingway’s father death ●Agnes and Hemingway’s relationship and Henry and Catherine’s are closely related, each end in pain and loneliness

Hemingway’s Writing Themes ❖ Masculinity ❖ Dissilusion ❖ Existentialism/ Nihilism ❖ Women and Love ❖ Nature ❖ Death and Betrayal Literary Techniques ❖ Internal Monologues ❖ Simple,clear,direct diction ❖ Vivid, concise dialogue ❖ Single point-of-view ❖ Stream of consciousness ❖ Straightforward prose

“What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada”- “Clean, Well-Lighted Place” “It had taken a strange chance of hunting, a sudden precipitation into action without worrying beforehand, to bring this about with Macomber…Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear.”- “Short Happy Life” Hemingway’s Short Stories

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