Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

Ernest Hemingway: An Important Figure in the 20th Century and Centuries to Come
Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899 was an American author known for his proverbial impact on the literary world of the 20th century. Hemingway’s family owned a cabin up in Northern Michigan where he spent a great deal of his childhood and is where he learned to love the outdoors. Hemingway’s appreciation for the outdoors in activities such as fishing and bullfighting created many experiences of which he wrote into novels. Hemingway’s novels were extremely well received in his generation, and are still well received today.
At the beginning of Hemingway’s career, he edited his high school's newspaper as well as contribute a few pieces of literary …show more content…
Such a novel allows its author to satirize a person or reveal scandalous details about him or her… It also enables an author to fictionalize some aspects of a real person's life.” The sun also rises is a romantic novel of the sort dealing with “the lost generation” as coined by Gertrude Stein describing those who came of age during and after World
War I (Mellow 273,274). The Sun Also Rises is widely “recognized as Hemingway’s greatest work” and is received in this manner due to his use of real people in the book (Meyers 192). The New York Times gave the novel a positive review saying that “No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame”(New York Times 1926). Most often Hemingway used real people from his life for characters in his book which gives them a natural and believable feel. Hemingway does it so well that readers may know their own versions of Jake Barnes or Robert Cohn, both characters from the sun also rises, which in turn adds value to the clarity …show more content…
Hemingway portrayed himself in the form of the protagonist “Jake Barnes” within the sun also rises. The book as a whole is a recollection of a short period in Hemingway’s life with a few minor distortions to the story line. “The novel is a roman à clef; the characters are based on real people of Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events. In the novel, Hemingway presents his notion that the "Lost Generation", considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I, was resilient and strong”(Baker

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