Ernest Hemingway, who was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, was legend in his own time, and is now a legend in our time. Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. Hemingway was fascinated with war, and it graced his works many a time. War was one of Hemingway’s most common themes. This point is evident in some of his most famous works that helped him to gain acclaimed success: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Writings on the life of Hemingway helped shed light on these works. Hemingway, who had a reputation as a “robust, belligerent American hero, sought to experience violence as well as write about it” (Shaffer 1). Hemingway was known as an “expert in the areas of war, bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, big-game hunting, and reckless, extravagant living--experiences that he often recounted in his fiction” (Shaffer 1). Hemingway always had an infatuation with the war life, and in his earlier years tried many times to enlist in the army. He was always unsuccessful because of his “poor eyesight” (Quote of the Day). However, Hemingway was finally able to take

Hemingway wrote with the rule that the “truth must be told” and in Hemingway’s fiction you will definitely find a lot of real life, some tragedy and truth.

These men, Jake Barnes, Fredric Henry, and Robert Jordan demonstrate courage and perseverance in the face of adversity, thus exemplifying Hemingway's concern with fortitude and personal commitment” (Ernest Hemingway).Hemingway once said, "loss and approaching death may be the most unavoidable fact of human existence" and maybe "the central lesson of existence. However that death must be accepted, faced without demoralization, thereby mastered" (Gurko). Gurko adds, "Hemingway's stories are as much a demonstration of the lesson as they are of the fact and their drama arises from the tension between them" (Gurko177 178)

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