Short Happy Life of Francis Ma

Ernest Hemingway born July 21st, 1899 the second of six children. Over his childhood he was very attached to his mother, Grace Hemingway. An eccentric woman who enjoyed music and art, she was not a woman who was going to be limited to the kitchen. She also tried to include all of the children in the arts and music, Ernest played the cello and attended operas. When he gets older he tries to join the army, but cannot because of his bad left eye. Therefore, he joined as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Austro-Italian front. While he was in the trenches one day it got shelled by a group of Australian troops. He then picked up an injured body and carried it to the closest barrack, even with a knee that had been shot. He received a medal for his bravery but had to stay in a hospital recovering. That when he met her, his first real love. Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky, a volunteer nurse for the Red Cross, who has nurse while he was recovering in the hospital. Hemmingway had grown up out of his adolescent looks and now possessed “masculine good looks” (Kert 54) He therefore had the eye of all the nurses, but he wanted only one and she returned the feeling “[devoting] herself to Ernest” (58) Something unexpected happened, she had to leave to go help other patient in other parts of Italy. This did not stop their love from blooming, for they would write letters to each other constantly. Somewhere in these letters Hemingway got the impression that Agnes wanted to marry him, he therefore asked her and she rejected him and she left to go back home. Ernest who “was stunned, then sick, then furious [and] the rejection continued to rankle, until it became and emotional injury of enduring consequence.”

“That was a pretty thing to do,” [Wilson] said in a toneless voice. “He would have left you too.”

Wilson seems to look down on this kind of attitude with pity on Macomber. This could also be seen as Hemingway, represented by Wilson, showing some remorse for the kind of man he always hated, the weak and scared type dominated by women as expressed by Wilson’s latter speech.

All through his childhood Hemingway despised his mother and saw her as “that bitch”, (Kert 21) he blames her as the reason of his father’s suicide. Its also stated that his attitude of the superiority of men over women grew out of his mother always controlling his father and according to him “a selfish wife”(36) who, in turn destroyed his father. All of the information provided shows th

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