Ernest Hemingway And A Farewell To Arms
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park,
Illinois. His father was the owner of a prosperous real estate business.
His father, Dr. Hemingway, imparted to Ernest the importance of
appearances, especially in public. Dr. Hemingway invented surgical
forceps for which he would not accept money. He believed that one should
not profit from something important for the good of mankind. Ernest's
father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he
allowed his children to read. He forbad Ernest's sister from studying
ballet for it was coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and
damnation".
Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, ...
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doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement
was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting
Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and
never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned
and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from
appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it
appeared in the Bible.
Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he
couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read books. He loved to
tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to
one of his stories. In spite of his mother's desire, he played on the
football team at Oak Park High School.
As a student, Ernest was a perfectionist about his grammar and
studied English with a fervor. He contributed articles to the weekly
school newspaper. It seems that the principal ...
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and then married Hadley
Richardson. She believed that he should spend all his time in writing,
and bought him a typewriter for his birthday. They decided that the best
place for a writer to live was Paris, where he could devote himself to his
writing. He said, at the time, that the most difficult thing to write
about was being a man. They could not live on income from his stories and
so Ernest, again, wrote for The Toronto Star.
Ernest took Hadley to Italy to show her where he had been during
the war. He was devastated, everything had changed, everything was
destroyed.
Hadley became pregnant and was sick all the time. She and Ernest
decided to move to Canada. He ...
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