Life and Work of Ernest Hemingway

Established as one of the major American writers of his age, Ernest Hemingway is perhaps one of the most imitated writers in recent history. However, he was, and still is, one of the most controversial figures in American literature. Having had a disquieting childhood, Hemingway had grown to question and wonder at the nature of the world around him. This is perhaps why his later life was marked by many voluntary travels and adventures. A most important initial adventure that set the stage for his later life, was his participation in World War I and subsequent wounding in battle. His outlook on life having been changed drastically by the experience of war, Hemingway returned with many conflicts to resolve and many ideas to ponder. Because of his training as a writer, he found writing about his experiences or ideas to be a natural extension of himself. This natural ease and nonchalance that he took towards his writing eventually became one of the major writing styles of the twentieth century. Ironically, this same nonchalance was also one of the most criticized aspects of Hemingway's life. Indeed, almost three decades after his death, the criticisms of his work and his life get more numerous every year. This paper will discuss the life of Ernest Hemingway in order to set the stage for his later years. His work will then be discussed to understand how he viewed his early life, his situation at the time of writing, and his views on the world around him. Since there ha

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5 that Hemingway realized some measure of success. The Torrents of Spring and the volume of stories called In Our Time became his first real moneymaking works (Renza 661-680). Soon after this Hemingway began to distinguish himself as he gathered around him the friends from Paris, Pamplona, and the Austrian Alps that would later be immortalized in The Sun Also Rises. Created mostly out of events from the Pamplona fiesta of 1925, this work observes that life is much like the cleansing of the soul that is associated with a fiesta (Noble 115-120). Things continued to go well for Hemingway as far as literary things were concerned, but he began to estrange his friends by his boisterous nature. He destroyed his marriage with his first wife in order to marry another woman, suffered a number of accidents that left him in poor physical condition for a time, and was increasingly antiintellectual. It was almost like life had set about to punish Hemingway for his overbearing nature. His literary career only improved as his social difficulties worsened. A Farewell to Arms and his later For Whom the Bell Tolls were extremely popular. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's way to tell about and resolve his experiences with war and postwar E

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