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Ernest Hemingway Essay

Ernest Hemingway Essay


Topic: How do Hemingway’s life experiences shape his writing?

Assignment: Examine how a particular element or elements of Hemingway’s life (i.e. his relationships with women, his time as an expatriate in Paris, his time as a war-time correspondent, his familial history of suicide, his drinking and depression, his time as a journalist, his time up in Michigan as a youth, his time on African safari, his time in Cuba and Key West, etc.) shaped a particular work or works.

Suggested length: 3-5 pages (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font), plus bibliography

Date due: Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Primary source requirement: one (The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway)

Secondary source requirement: at least two (some suggestions: The Literary 100, by Daniel S. Burt; By Line: Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White; Conversations with Ernest Hemingway, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli; Ernest Hemingway, remembered by Norberto Fuentes; online resources below)

A wonderful collection of online resources from the Hemingway collection at the JFK Library:

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Hemingway+Archive/Online+Resources/default.htm)

Sample Citations:

Burt, Daniel S. The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001.

Hemingway, Ernest. “The Killers.” The Short Stories. New York: Scribner, 1995. 279-289.

Sample Paragraph by Mr. Ambrose (note topic sentence, direct quotation, and commentary):

Hemingway utilizes the doppelganger protagonist Nick Adams, a thinly-veiled version of the author himself, as the driving force behind his veritably autobiographical short stories. In his book The Literary 100, Wesleyan University professor Daniel S. Burt identifies Nick as the quintessential Hemingway hero, whose struggles and challenges parallel Hemingway’s own:

The stories of In Our Time, which can be read as a narrative sequence, introduce the characteristic Hemingway hero, Nick Adams. Nick is shown as various stages of his development attempting to cope with different traumas as the threat of death and destruction engulf him. (Burt 173)

Initially, readers may misinterpret the “characteristic Hemingway hero” to be one conjured from the imagination of the writer (Burt 173). To read Hemingway’s stories in this fashion would discount the immense amount of personal experiences woven throughout his fiction. Indeed, when Nick asserts “I’m going to get out of this town…It’s too damned awful” at the conclusion of “The Killers,” it may as well be Hemingway himself expressing this deeply emotive desire (Hemingway 289).

American Literature www.misterambrose.com Mr. Ambrose



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