HOW HEMINGWAY’S ECCENTRIC LIFE WAS DEMONSTRATED IN HIS WRITINGSAndrea Jones

Some arguments on why Hemingway’s writings remain such an enigmatic presence in the literary world:

Writing Style Ability to write descriptively The fast life in which he lived

It was his ability to draw from his own eccentric life experiences

and put those experiences into a story that elevated him.

ANDERS HALLENGREN SAID:

“The author, who never kept a journal or wrote and

autobiography in his life, draws on experience for his realism,

slightly transforming events in his life.”

HEMMINGWAY’S ABILITY TO DESCRIBE THROUGH HIS WRITING:

“Just as Hemingway’s chiseled prose brings us to breathe the air in his characters breathe and feel their emotions at a remove, so that same prose makes us taste the meals they eat and savor the wines they sip in a world as three dimensional as good writing can make it.” ~Kelly Dupris

HEMINGWAY’S SEX LIFE

It may be surmised that he struggled with various aspects of sexuality and his writings may be reflective of his personal experiences.

In the “Garden of Eden,” Hemingway celebrates a woman who controls the sexual relationship with her husband and initiates female-on-male sodomy.

In an effort to capture the realism for his book “Under Kilimanjaro,” Hemingway would hunt barefoot at night with a spear.

“Hemingway wanted to inhabit the place seriously more than he wanted to produce artifacts about brief visits.” ~Ryan Hediger

In a letter Hemingway wrote to his father, he describes it best:

“You see I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing.”