Hills like White Elephants part 2

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, the second of six children, and spent his early years in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. Growing up with his mother and father, he lived a somewhat deprived childhood because of their strict ways and punishment for disobedience. After finishing high school, Hemingway had two things in mind that he wanted to do: be a writer or join the military. Since his father would not allow him to enlist, he left his home to go report for the Kansas City Star. Some time passed and Hemingway grew anxious and left to do the only other thing he wanted to do most besides writing, which was to join the military. He joined the Red Cross in WWI as an ambulance driver in Europe. He became wounded in a knee over there and fell in love with his nurse Agnes von Kurosky. Their relationship did not last be he did write about their romance in his novel Fare Well to Arms. After recovering, he returned to the U.S to be journalist and married Elizabeth Hadley Richardson but devorced her after the birth of his first son for having an affair with mistress Pauline Pfeiffer. He marries Pauline and has two more children with her and leaves her 12 years later to marry another mistress. This third marriage lasts 10 years but falls apart because he falls in love again with yet, another mistress. Hemingway publishes many more short stories including Hills Like White Elephants. Throughout most of his life he deals with severe problems of alcoholism. After all of his lifes struggles, he is diagnosed with bipolar depression and insomnia. After an unsuccessful elctro-shock therapy session to helps his illnessess, his condition worsens even more and he gets amnesia. The fact of his detteriorating condition and mental health has a serious impact in his writing and life in general. Hemingway commits suicide in the summer of 1961, he was 61 years old.

Three things that I feel that greatly influenced Hemingway's style for his prose where deffinatley:

1. His learned style as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, which was short and to the point.
2. His experience in the military, which I feel made his style even more masculine.
3. His difficult time staying in a meaningful relationship, which might reflect his trouble understanding women as shown in his short story, Hills Like White Elephants.

These three things deffinitaly affected and influenced his unique style of writing.

works cited

"SparkNotes: Hills Like White Elephants: Context." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. Web. 05 Apr. 2011. http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/hills-like-white-elephants/context.html.

 

Shelokhonov, Steve. "Ernest Hemingway - Biography." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 05 Apr. 2011. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002133/bio>.