Outline
I. In the successful life of Ernest Hemingway something led this famous Author to
take his on life.
II. Struggles of Ernest Hemingway
a. When he drank sometimes he grew quarrelsome. (Source 1)
b. He married 4 times.
c. He had skin cancer (Own Diagnoses), and grew his white beard to cover
the white scaling on his face. (Source 1)
d. He began to believe the government agents were following him. (Source
1)
e. Hemingway quote: “What does a man care about? Staying healthy,
working good, Eating and drinking with friends. Enjoying himself in bed.
I haven’t any of them. Do you understand goddamn it?” (Source 1)
III. Hemingway’s Success
a. First novel written 1925: The Sun Also Rises. (Source 3)
b. He was becoming the best-known fisherman in America. (Source 3
c. IN 1952 Hemingway created his most famous book The Old man and The
Sea (Source 3
d. In 1953 Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (Source 3)
e. In 1954 when he was in Cuba the news was that he had been awarded the
Nobel Prize for literature. (Source 3)
IV. Hemingway’s Family
a. Hemingway became alienated with his parents at an early age because of
his first novel was a disgrace to them. (Source 3)
b. He married his first wife in Paris, France. Her name was Hadley
Richardson. (Source 3)
c. The next wife was Pauline Pfeiffer (Source 3)
d. In 1940 he married a successful writer pretty Martha Gellhorn.(Source 3)
e. His final wife was Mary Welsh a war Correspondent. (Source 1)
V. Events leading to suicide
a. Hemingway received treatment for his illness and it caused him to lose a
lot of his memory. (Source 1)
b. He was ridiculed for his worst book ever.
c. Perkins was a mentor, not just and editor to Hemingway, so when he
perished Hemingway felt lost in his writing. (Source 2)
d. The death of Perkins came at a time where Hemingway was physically out
of shape and in mental illness. Hemingway’s comeback failed miserably.
(Source 2).
e. Nothing would work out he couldn’t fish or hunt. He was immobilized.
(Source 1)
VI. Conclusion: Hemingway is one of the most talented authors in American History.
The man was taken by his own will because he wanted his legacy to live in
greatness.