Hills Like White Elephants Essay
“Hills like White Elephants”
By Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway born in 1899, in Cicero, Illinois, served in World War 1, worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for writing four novels, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, in 1954 he became a Nobel Prize winner. Hemingway was raised in the suburb of Chicago but he and his folks spent most of their time in Michigan. He learned to be a great hunter, fisherman and had a great appreciation for the outdoors. In high school he worked on their newspaper, I Trapeze and Tabula, writing about sports. After high school he went to be a junior reporter for the Kansas City Star (Bio). In 1918 Hemingway wanted to join the army but failed his medical exam due to …show more content…
His writing deals with how he probably acted and felt in the presence of the women he cared about. According to James Mellow, "Hemingway’s divorce from Hadley and his marriage to Pauline and the convergence—would have a man, for a time, with two women in his life—would have a long reach into his fictional life" (Mellow 349).
Hemingway and Pauline moved back to the states after the birth of their first born. During this time he finished his novel A Farewell to Arms. When Hemingway wasn’t writing he chased adventure, big game hunting, deep sea fishing, and bull fighting. On a trip to report about the Spanish Civil War in 1937 he met Martha Gellhorn who soon became his third wife. Also gather material for his next novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Hemingway served as a correspondent in World War II, and toward the end of the war Met Mary Welsh who later became his third wife. In 1951 he wrote what some call his most famous book The Old Man and The Sea, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize.
By Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway born in 1899, in Cicero, Illinois, served in World War 1, worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for writing four novels, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, in 1954 he became a Nobel Prize winner. Hemingway was raised in the suburb of Chicago but he and his folks spent most of their time in Michigan. He learned to be a great hunter, fisherman and had a great appreciation for the outdoors. In high school he worked on their newspaper, I Trapeze and Tabula, writing about sports. After high school he went to be a junior reporter for the Kansas City Star (Bio). In 1918 Hemingway wanted to join the army but failed his medical exam due to …show more content…
His writing deals with how he probably acted and felt in the presence of the women he cared about. According to James Mellow, "Hemingway’s divorce from Hadley and his marriage to Pauline and the convergence—would have a man, for a time, with two women in his life—would have a long reach into his fictional life" (Mellow 349).
Hemingway and Pauline moved back to the states after the birth of their first born. During this time he finished his novel A Farewell to Arms. When Hemingway wasn’t writing he chased adventure, big game hunting, deep sea fishing, and bull fighting. On a trip to report about the Spanish Civil War in 1937 he met Martha Gellhorn who soon became his third wife. Also gather material for his next novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Hemingway served as a correspondent in World War II, and toward the end of the war Met Mary Welsh who later became his third wife. In 1951 he wrote what some call his most famous book The Old Man and The Sea, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize.