Author

Ernest Hemingway when was a baby

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois at eight o’clock in the morning. He was the second son of Dr. Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway’s six children; he had four sisters and a half-brother. Hemingway’s career was nourished by the twentieth century’s major cultural and political events, including World War I, the Spanish civil war, and the flourishing of the arts in Paris in the 1920’s. Like many American writers, Hemingway worked originally as a newspaper reporter. He also fought in Italy during World war I, was wounded, and used his war experiences in his early book of “ series and sketches (1925), and in his novel” a farewell to arms (1929). He lived in Paris, where he met Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. An avid sportsman and a big game hunter, Hemingway reveled in competition and pursuits that pitted him against nature. His direct and unadorned writing style has been much intimidated by subsequent writers(563). Hemingway has written many short stories such as: hills like white elephants, the sun also rises, across the river and the see, a farewell to arms, just to name a few. He married his first wife Elizabeth Hadley Richardson on September 3, 1921, and they had their first son, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway also known as Jack. Hemingway died on July 2, 1961, some three weeks short of his 62nd birthday. He killed himself by self-inflicting a gunshot wound to the head and he was later buried in a Roman Catholic service. “Hills like white elephants” is what Hemingway uses to portray himself as similarly to that of the story’s protagonist. The story is set in a bar beside train station. Jig, the antagonist of the story, seems disconnected as she looks out over a line of hills and says,” they look like white elephants” (Hemingway 563). This statement and the title are symbolic to the meaning of the story. One must know that if one is given a white elephant then they are given an unwanted and useless gif (Lewis1). That is what the couple is confronting at the heart of “Hills like white elephants.” The couple continues drinking beer heavily which would lead one to believe that they have something troubling them throughout the story.