Synthesis of Ernest Hemingway 
Synthesis of Ernest Hemingway
“You see, I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of actual life across not just to depict life or criticize it but to actually make it alive. So that when you read something by me you actually experience the thing” (Dubus). This quote explains Hemingway’s reason for writing, and the point he is trying to convey. Ernest Hemingway shows realistic thinking with reference to life through his fictional characters and personal experiences, earning his credibility to be the voice of the “Lost Generation”. Due to the fact that Hemingway wants to capture real life, he portrays the disorientation of people postwar. As seen through his character “Jake” in the novel The Sun Also Rises, he does not hold back any gruesome or somber details of these people, for the purpose of revealing real life in fiction (Bloom).
Hemingway’s work creates a light or spark of realization of the world to his readers
(Moddelmog).This is apart of his overall movement at this point in time. In his stories, he tries to get the feeling of actual life across, so the reader can fully experience it (Dubus). According to
Andre Dubus III:
Ernest Hemingway, a writer whose daily surrendering of himself to his novels and stories and the lives being lived inside them achieves precisely what he hoped it would, to “make it alive”, which, miraculously, still has the enduring power to make us more alive in that precious allotment of time we are all given on this
Earth.
By this, he means to explain Hemingway’s impact on the people he is writing for. Not only does he capture life in his writing, but he also uses influences from his own life to relate his stories to real life (Spanier). Many of his writings, like The Sun Also Rises, represents the life Hemingway
lived and enjoyed. He includes his personal values and relates his characters to his cultural or national past. Since he does this, he has the ability to bring mortality to his writing. He
“You see, I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of actual life across not just to depict life or criticize it but to actually make it alive. So that when you read something by me you actually experience the thing” (Dubus). This quote explains Hemingway’s reason for writing, and the point he is trying to convey. Ernest Hemingway shows realistic thinking with reference to life through his fictional characters and personal experiences, earning his credibility to be the voice of the “Lost Generation”. Due to the fact that Hemingway wants to capture real life, he portrays the disorientation of people postwar. As seen through his character “Jake” in the novel The Sun Also Rises, he does not hold back any gruesome or somber details of these people, for the purpose of revealing real life in fiction (Bloom).
Hemingway’s work creates a light or spark of realization of the world to his readers
(Moddelmog).This is apart of his overall movement at this point in time. In his stories, he tries to get the feeling of actual life across, so the reader can fully experience it (Dubus). According to
Andre Dubus III:
Ernest Hemingway, a writer whose daily surrendering of himself to his novels and stories and the lives being lived inside them achieves precisely what he hoped it would, to “make it alive”, which, miraculously, still has the enduring power to make us more alive in that precious allotment of time we are all given on this
Earth.
By this, he means to explain Hemingway’s impact on the people he is writing for. Not only does he capture life in his writing, but he also uses influences from his own life to relate his stories to real life (Spanier). Many of his writings, like The Sun Also Rises, represents the life Hemingway
lived and enjoyed. He includes his personal values and relates his characters to his cultural or national past. Since he does this, he has the ability to bring mortality to his writing. He