Ernest Hemingway: 1950 - Death
Ernest Hemingway was a famous American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His writings have been recognized not just in the United States, but also all over the world. Hemingway’s loves were bullfighting, wars, hunting, and fishing; which explains the subject matter of his books. These story lines continued in his later books, such as Across the River and into the Trees, a novel he wrote in the late 1940’s, that was published in, 1950. The Old Man and the Sea, which was published in, 1952, this was the novel that got him his Pulitzer Prize. He was also a man who drank too much, and cheated on any woman he was involved with, most of the women in his writings are based on women that had been in his life. Toward the end of World War II, Hemingway participated in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, the invasion of Normandy. He spent a month with the 22nd infantry regiment as they pushed toward and crossed over into Germany. This was the basis for Across the River and into the Trees. It tells the bittersweet story of Richard Cantwell, a former brigadier general who has been demoted to colonel after a disastrous battle, which had been blamed on him. The aging
During 1960-61, he disintegrated physically. He had high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney, and liver disease. The drugs he was on had the side effect of making him depressed, and he relied more and more on alcohol. He was taken to the Mayo Clinic where he was treated with electric shock therapy, but that just made his depression worst. On July 2, 1961, Hemingway, feeling very depressed, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home. It is unsettling that he could commit suicide after being so upset that his father had killed himself. It makes you wonder if suicide is hereditary, or if maybe he had so much drugs and alcohol in him that he was not in his right mind. The Old Man and the Sea, tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago, who after going eighty-six days of not catching anything finally catches a giant marlin. As he returns to the harbor, a shark eats the fish that had been lashed to his boat. Hemingway's longtime friend and boat captain, Gregorio Fuentes, was said to be the inspiration for the main character in "The Old Man and the Sea" (Hemingway, the fall, 1). He wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the Old Man and the Sea. This is one of the few novels that he wrote that did not involve a woman he had seen or was seeing.
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