Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, Oak Park, Illinois, United States and Morley Callaghan was born February 22, 1903, Toronto, Canada. Right away this is a big difference in cultural backgrounds being born in different countries. Hemingway was raised in a suburb of Chicago and Callaghan was raised in Toronto. Both …show more content…
With Hemingway fighting in World War 1 he never got the chance to gain a collage or university degree in writing, which is much different then Callaghan’s gaining a degree in Law from University of Toronto, but if you look overall at this degree there was not much purpose in ever getting such degree when someone like Hemingway got the same exact job at the Toronto Sun shortly after Callaghan. Now maybe Callahan did not aspire to be a writer in his early adult life but looking back he could have had a very successful job in law but instead take the chance on his writing career. Hemingway on the other hand didn’t exactly have anything to lose; he could only survive on the money he got from the First World War for so long, so why not take the chance at following a dream and passion of writing. The next part of both writers writing careers is what sets them apart. Hemingway, shortly after getting the job at the