Ernest Hemingway

Who was he?

As a young man Hemingway was a journalist.

Milan 1918

•Served as a Red Cross ambulance driver in WWI.

•Left the war when wounded in both legs

Who was he?

In the 1920’s he moved to France and met these famous authors. Ezra

Pound

Gertrude Stein

F. Scott FitzgeraldFord Maddox Ford

James Joyce

Who was he?

Later in life he lived in Cuba and Key West, Florida

Milan 1918

Cuba Home

Key West Home and a famous “Hemingway Cat”

Hemingway Cats

Hemingway Cats

Hemingway and Cuba

• An “interesting” pairing

Hemingway’s Status• Hemingway was a celebrity

and he knew it. • He loved fame but eventually

became disenchanted with the status.

• His life was filled with three failed marriages, a debilitating addiction to alcohol, literary stagnation (at times), and eventually ended in his suicide after a full mental breakdown.

Sometimes Hemingway was

compared to Rudolph Valentino (sound

familiar?)

Major Works

• The Sun Also Rises• The Old Man and the Sea• For Whom the Bell Tolls• A Farewell to Arms• Many Short Stories• Also served as a war correspondent for several wars.

Hobbies and Interests

• Hemingway was an expert in things like the arena of war, bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, big game hunting, and reckless, expensive living.

War

Correspondent

Hemingway was married

four times

Big Game Hunter

“Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbingare the only real sports ... all others are games.”

-Hemingway

Deep-Sea Fisherman

Allow me to share some of my work!

What We’ll ReadThe Nick Adams Stories:

•“Indian Camp”

•“The Killers”

•“A Way You’ll Never Be”

•“Big-Hearted River I&II”

•“Fathers and Sons”

Other:

•“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

•“Hills Like White Elephants”

•“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

•“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”

Goals of this Unit:

1) What is the “code hero?”How do Hemingway’s stories display the qualities of the “code hero?”

•The “Nick Adams” stories

2) A look into style. What is Hemingway’s style like? How does his writing reflect his life’s work? What does your style reflect?

Nobel Prize for Literature

Final Words

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that

distinguish one man from another.