Ernest Hemingway

1. Ernest Hemingway July 21st 1899 – July 2nd 1961

3. Early Years • Born: Oak Park, Illinois • Age 17: Newspaper writer, Kansas City

4. Born in Oak Park Illinois One of Six Children Participated in Numerous High School Sports First Published at Age 17

5. WWI: volunteer ambulance driver in Italian Army…wounded, decorated

6. Post World War One • newspaper reporter, writer

7. First two novels • The Sun Also Rises (1926) • A Farewell to Arms (1929) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTH03nRWG3s Video Clip: Disc 1 – Chapter 1 - Reflections

8. Passions: Women4 wives! #1: Hadley Richardson 1921-1927 = First Born Son “Bumby”

9. 3 sons • John (“Bumby”) - 1923 - With Hadley • Patrick – 1928 – With Pauline • Gregory - 1931 – With Pauline

10. 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

11. Passions: Boxing Video Clip: Disc 1 – Chapter 8 – In the Boxing Ring

12. Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway’s Women Overlap Key West Two Sons: Gregoryand Patrick Another Affair/ Divorce

13. Hemingway in Key West, FL Avid fisherman Denizen of “Sloppy Joe’s” Modern Day Hemingway Look-Alike Contest 1930s – While married to Pauline Video Clip: Disc One, Part Two: Chapter 3 and 4

15. Wife #3 Martha Gellhorn1940-1945

16. Martha Gellhorn 3 Weeks Single- Marriage! Met in ‘36, Married in 40 Published Journalist herself Resented the title “Hemingway’s 3rd Wife” (Wanted her own notoriety) She cheated…..

17. Civil War in Spain • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Video Clip: Disc One, Part Two: Chapter 10

18. World War Two Video Clip: Disc TWO, Part One: Chapter 1

19. World War II • Returned to France and worked as a war correspondent • Often over-stepped his bounds: •  '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

20. Wife #4 Mary Welsh1946-1961 Video Clip: Disc 2– Chapter 10 - (FF)

21. Final Novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Nobel Prize

22. Passions:Hunting

26. Passions: Dangerous Sports

27. Passions: writing

28. 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

29. Passions: CUBA - Purchased “Finca Vigia” in 1939

31. Passions: AlcoholBattles alcoholism, depression

32. Death: Front page of New York TimesJuly 2, 1961 Video Clip: Disc 2 – Chapter 12

33. Hemingway’s Late Life Troubles: • 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.

34. Less Is More “All you have to do is write one true sentence”

35. His writing style • “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.”  • Hemingway • From The Moveable Feast

36. “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

37. Writing Style • Economy • Understatement • Irony • Sarcasm

38. 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

39. Hemingway Style • 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.

40. Hemingway Style • Detached descriptions of action, using simple nouns and verbs to capture scenes precisely.

41. topics Grace under Pressure war, hunting, bullfighting, fishing, boxing…

42. 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.

43. Hemingway Code Hero • A man who… • "offers up and exemplifies certain principles of honor, courage, and endurance which in a life of tension and pain make a man a man."

44. Code Hero • "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." 

45. Code Hero • 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.

46. Code Hero • 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.

47. Code Hero • 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.

48. Hemingway’s Impact • HUGE • His hotel room in Pamplona (running of the bulls) is booked until 2040!