July 21st 1899 – July 2nd 1961
Early Years
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Born: Oak Park, Illinois
Age 17: Newspaper writer, Kansas City
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WWI: volunteer ambulance driver in Italian
Army…wounded, decorated
Post World War One
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newspaper reporter, writer
First two novels
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The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTH03nR
WG3s
Video Clip: Disc 1 – Chapter 1 - Reflections
Passions: Women
4 wives!
#1: Hadley Richardson
1921-1927 = First Born Son “Bumby”
3 sons
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John (“Bumby”) - 1923 - With Hadley
Patrick – 1928 – With Pauline
Gregory - 1931 – With Pauline
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
Married Hemingway after less than one
year
“The Early Years”
Travelled to and lived in Paris together
Produced One Son: John "Jack" Hadley
Nicanor Hemingway (Bumby)
In Paris they Met the Pfeiffer Sisters
Divorce
Pauline Pfeiffer
Hemingway’s Women
Overlap
Key West
Two Sons: Gregory and
Patrick
Another Affair/ Divorce
Hemingway in Key West, FL
Avid fisherman
Denizen of “Sloppy
Joe’s”
Modern Day
Hemingway LookAlike Contest
1930s – While married to
Pauline
Video Clip: Disc One, Part Two: Chapter 3 and 4
Martha Gellhorn
3 Weeks SingleMarriage!
Met in ‘36, Married in 40
Published Journalist
herself
Resented the title
“Hemingway’s 3rd Wife”
(Wanted her own notoriety)
She cheated…..
World War II
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Returned to France and worked as a war
correspondent
Often over-stepped his bounds:
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'Hemingway got into considerable trouble playing
infantry captain to a group of Resistance people
that he gathered because a correspondent is not
supposed to lead troops, even if he does it well.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQtr6ERIrU
Final Novel
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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Nobel Prize
Passions:
Hunting
Passions: Dangerous Sports
Passions: writing
Short Story Collections
Nick Adams Stories
 Men without Women (1927)
 The Fifth Column and the Forty-Nine Stories
(1938)
 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
 The Short Happy Life of
Francis Macomber
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Passions: CUBA
- Purchased “Finca Vigia” in 1939
Passions: Alcohol
Battles alcoholism, depression
Hemingway’s Late Life Troubles:
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Things are not always as they seem.
Hemingway suffered from severe clinical
depression at a time when there were not
drugs available to control its effects like we
can today. The Hemingway that took his own
life in 1961 simply was not the same man as
the one in the stories above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyTi9v9Q
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“All you have to do is write
one true sentence”
His writing style
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“Do not worry. You have always
written before and you will write
now. All you have to do is write one
true sentence. Write the truest
sentence that you know.”
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Hemingway
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From The Moveable Feast
“He was a genius, that uneasy word,
not so much in what he wrote as in
how he wrote; he liberated our written
language.”
3rd wife, Martha Gellhorn
Writing Style
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Economy
Understatement
Irony
Sarcasm
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The syntax, which lacks subordinating
conjunctions, creates static sentences. He
used a photographic "snapshot" style to
create a collage of images. Short sentences
build one on another; events build to create a
sense of the whole. Multiple strands exist in
one story; an "embedded text" bridges to a
different angle. He also used other cinematic
techniques of "cutting" quickly from one
scene to the next; or of "splicing" a scene into
another. Intentional omissions allow the
reader to fill the gap, as though responding to
instructions from the author, and create three
dimensional prose
Hemingway Style
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Provides the reader with the raw material of
an experience, eliminating the authorial
viewpoint and having the text reproduce the
actual experience as closely as possible.
Hemingway Style
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Detached descriptions of action, using
simple nouns and verbs to capture scenes
precisely.
topics
Grace under Pressure
war, hunting, bullfighting, fishing, boxing…
Works depict the lives of two types of
people. One type consists of men and women
who have lost faith in moral values and live
with cynical disregard for anything but
their own emotional needs.
The other type is men of simple character
and primitive emotions, such as boxers and
bullfighters, who wage courageous and
usually futile battles against the
circumstances of their lives.
Hemingway Code Hero
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A man who…
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"offers up and exemplifies certain
principles of honor, courage, and
endurance which in a life of tension
and pain make a man a man."
Code Hero
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"a man who lives correctly, following the
ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a
world that is sometimes chaotic, often
stressful, and always painful."
Code Hero
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The Code Hero measures himself by how
well they handle the difficult situations that life
throws at him. In the end the Code Hero will
lose because we are all mortal, but the true
measure is how a person faces death.
Code Hero
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Traits of a typical Hemingway Code Hero:
a love of good times
stimulating surroundings
strict moral rules, including honesty.
The Code Hero often exhibits some form of a
physical wound that serves as his tragic flaw
and the weakness of his character.
Code Hero
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A code hero never shows emotions; showing
emotions and having a commitment to
women shows weakness. Qualities such as
bravery, adventuresome and travel also
define the Code Hero.