Life & Fiction in the Work of Fitzgerald & Hemingway
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were two of the finest writers of this century and two of the most distinctively American voices of 20th century literature as well. Although their styles were radically different, they both used their fiction to depict their own experiences in often barely fictionalized form. They also used their fiction, and especially their short stories, to advance their philosophies. Ironically, although each attempted to create a voice and a fictional persona that was highly individual and unique, each came to be seen as the voice of a generation and so at least in some ways lost their individuality. This paper examines how the two writers blended life and fiction in their works.Before beginning this discussion though, it should be noted that the pairing of these two authors, while legitimate on artistic grounds, would certainly not have pleased these two man, or at least not Hemingway. As Hart notes, Hemingway considered himself to be the better writer and objected on almost moral grounds to FitzgeraldĆs successes. Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises (1926) as a direct rejoinder to The Great Gatsby (1925): he created it as an aggressive defense of his own style against Fitzgerald's ű and, derivatively, of his own view of reality. With The Sun Also Rises he declared almost open war against a rival whom he suddenly saw as formidable far beyond his expectations. Until Gatsby appeared, Hemingway had considered Fitzgerald merely a popular writer and,
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screenwriter in Hollywood in 1937. That experience inspired his final and most mature novel, The Last Tycoon (1941). Although it remained unfinished at his death in Hollywood on December 21, 1940, the book's brilliance prompted critics to reevaluate Fitzgerald's talent and eventually to recognize him as one of the finest American writers of the 20th century.
Hemingway, born three years after Fitzgerald, died in 1961 after in many ways recreating the American novel. AS both novelist and short-story writer, his style is characterized by crispness, laconic dialogue, and emotional understatement and both his writings and his personal life exerted a profound influence on American writers of his time.
Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 1899, and educated at Oak Park High School. He became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, but left his job within a few months to serve as a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. He later transferred to the Italian infantry and was severely wounded. After the war he was a correspondent for the Toronto Star and then settled in Paris. While there, he was encouraged in creative work by the American expatriate writers Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. After 1927 Hemingway spen
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