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How Did Ernest Hemingway Influenced By Ernest Hemingway

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From Hemingway’s outlandish family, to his principal influencers, it is understood that these are the key inspirations for his triumph in the writing realm. People either adored Hemingway or had a strong hatred for him. Hemingway connects to his writing in a way that no other author of his time period could, which is shown throughout his writing. A substantial part of Hemingway’s life was in the war, whether that was fighting or just helping out around the trenches. He did all of these things and still had a longing to travel the world. Ernest Hemingway was an excessively influential author to the overall modernism literary movement. He had a unique childhood and an extraordinary overall life. He took much pride in the quality of his …show more content…

Hemingway’s attitude
Hemingway’s attitude was a prominent part of him which determined many people’s perceptions of him. One bizarre thing about Hemingway was that he didn’t want a biography written during his lifetime and hoped that no one would write one until a century after his death. Three years before he died, he wrote in his will that none of his many letters were allowed to ever be published. But in the years since his death, Hemingway has had more written about him than any other American writer in the twentieth century. Hemingway was the kind of guy to tell something like it was. His sentences usually were not too complicated and he encompassed many stories by means of repetition (Adams). Hemingway also had a malevolent side to him. If he thought a women were not likeminded to him, he would threaten to take his own life (Adams). “He once boasted of shooting a dog in such a way as to ensure it would take days to bleed to death” (Adams). After going through this phase of having a horrid sense of humor, he started to tell everyone what to do. “Hemingway had arrived; he saw himself as one of the patriarchs of American literature, young as he was. He began to be everyone’s papa, but not often a benevolent one. He

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