Ernest Hemingway Writing Style Essay
Ernest Hemingway is known for much of his great short stories he wrote during the twentieth century. After graduating high school, Hemingway instead of going to college decided to take a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star newspaper. The Star's style guidelines influenced his writing style for the rest of his career: Use short sentences, short first paragraphs, and vigorous English. Soon World War I came along and Hemingway left the newspaper to join the U.S. Army so that he could fight in the War. However, The Army rejected him because of his poor eyesight, so he volunteered as a driver with the Red Cross Ambulance Corps. As a ambulance driver he was severely wounded and his driving career ended. While recuperating in a Milan hospital, Hemingway fell in love with an American nurse six years his senior named Agnes von Kurowsky. They made plans for her to join him in the United States. Hemingway returned to the United States only to find out that Agnes had fallen in love with an Italian Officer permanently making him doubt his loved ones. Hemingway wrote the A Farewell to Arms inspired by this event later on in his career. After the war, Hemingway moved to Toronto, Ontario to take a job as a reporter for the Toronto Star newspaper. Then in 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris where “the Most interesting people in the world” lived. This is what many called it Hemingway's turning point of his career. During his first 20
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months in Paris, Hemingway filed 88 stories for the Toronto Star newspaper, he published his first book “Three Stories and Ten Poems” and met many great writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound who "could help a young writer up the rungs of a career". In Paris Hemingway met F. Scott Fitzgerald, where they formed a friendship of “admiration and hostility.” When Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, Hemingway read it, liked it, and decided his next work had to be a novel. For his search to write a novel, he moved to spain with his wife Hadley where he became fascinated with Bullfighting. The third time he visited spain, he brought a couple of his close friends such as Bill Smith, Donald Ogden Stewart and Lady Duff Twysden. A couple of days after the fiesta ended, he began to write the draft of what would become The Sun Also Rises, finishing eight weeks later.
Hemingway was very well know throughout his life.
He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 and was greatly regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. After Paris Hemingway never again lives in a big city. Instead he moves from place to place from the key west and the caribbean to Cuba. Throughout these journeys he starts to write more short stories. While he was in the Key West and the Caribbean he wrote the short stories "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as well as “Green Hills of
Africa.”
On July 2, 1961, Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun blast. Hemingway said, “The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight, honest prose on human beings.” He did that in much of his work and deserves to be read widely.
months in Paris, Hemingway filed 88 stories for the Toronto Star newspaper, he published his first book “Three Stories and Ten Poems” and met many great writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound who "could help a young writer up the rungs of a career". In Paris Hemingway met F. Scott Fitzgerald, where they formed a friendship of “admiration and hostility.” When Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, Hemingway read it, liked it, and decided his next work had to be a novel. For his search to write a novel, he moved to spain with his wife Hadley where he became fascinated with Bullfighting. The third time he visited spain, he brought a couple of his close friends such as Bill Smith, Donald Ogden Stewart and Lady Duff Twysden. A couple of days after the fiesta ended, he began to write the draft of what would become The Sun Also Rises, finishing eight weeks later.
Hemingway was very well know throughout his life.
He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 and was greatly regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. After Paris Hemingway never again lives in a big city. Instead he moves from place to place from the key west and the caribbean to Cuba. Throughout these journeys he starts to write more short stories. While he was in the Key West and the Caribbean he wrote the short stories "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as well as “Green Hills of
Africa.”
On July 2, 1961, Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun blast. Hemingway said, “The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight, honest prose on human beings.” He did that in much of his work and deserves to be read widely.