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Review Of Ernest Hemingway And Writings Essay

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Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelest and short-story writer whose writings and personal life exerted a profound influence on American writers of his time and thereafter. Many of his works are regarded as American classics, and some have subsequently been made into motion pictures. A review of
Hemingway reveals many interesting points about his life, about the influences upon his works, and of the the themes and styles of his writings.

An examination of Hemingway's past brings to light many interesting points and helps to create a better understanding of how he came to be the master of the understated prose style. The second …show more content…

In an examination of Hemmingway's writings is very much akin to a study of his life. Most all of his fiction was based upon or expanded from events that he himself had experienced, or at least that which he knew completely, inside and out. Being the perfectionist that he was, Ernest did not feel justified in writing about topics of which he was not comepletely informed. Through his extensive travels in Europe and Africa, as well as other areas, he formed the groundwork for many of his most famed and cherished stories. His work as a Red
Cross ambulance driver (mentioned earlier) in Italy ended up providing the theme and location of one of his most sucsessful novels, A Farewell to Arms, published in 1929. Many of his tales, especially in earlier years, centered around a character named Nicholas Adams, undoubtably an incarnation of Hemingway himself.
Just as Hemingway before him, Nick Adams grew up around the Michigan woods, went overseas to fight in the war, was severely wounded, and returned home. Earlier stories set in Michigan, such as "Indian Camp" and "The Three-Day Blow" show a young Nick to be an impressionable adolescent trying to find his path in a brutally violent and overwhelmingly confusing world. Like most all of
Hemingway's main characters, Nick on the surface appears tough and insensitive.
However, "critical exploration has resulted

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