Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 and died by committing suicide on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. Ernest Hemingway life was similar to that of a regular upper middle class family but this would all change when he graduated in 1917 and took a job with the Kansas star reporting on police and hospital stories. Readers noticed his unconventional way of reporting violence, despair and emotional unrest. His next job, which I think plays a distinct role in the realism that he portrays in his writing, was

and I hope you have gotten a good idea of the way Hemingway's works are criticized and my views on this.

One of the things that impresses me the most about Hemingway's writing is his ability to involve the reader and not just lay out everything for them, the reader is allowed to have his/her own perceptions of the characters and the story. I don't think anyone could have put this into words better than Leo Gurko when he said this of Hemingway's characterization and similarly his style "the motive behind Hemingway's heroic figures is not glory, or fortune, or the righting of injustice, or the thirst for experience. They are inspired neither by vanity nor ambition nor a desire to better the world. They have no thoughts of reaching a state of higher grace or virtue. Instead, their behavior is a reaction to the moral emptiness of the universe, an emptiness that they feel compelled to fill by their own special efforts."(Gurko)

These two criticisms do not get the true depth of Hemingway's style and poise but put into perspective the true respect people had for his ability to be unique and that his visions and devotion preceded everything. I think that Sheldon Grebstein explained Hemingway's style depth best with this criticism "first, short and simple sentence constructions, with heavy use of parallelism, which convey the effect of control, terseness, and blunt honesty; second, purged diction which above all eschews the use of bookish, latinate, or abstract words and thus achieves the effect of being heard or spoken or transcribed from reality rather than appearing as a construct of the imagination (in brief, verisimilitude); and third, skillful use of repetition and a kind of verbal counterpoint, which operate either by pairing or juxtaposing opposites, or else by running the same word or phrase through a series of shifting meanings and inflections." (Grebstein) Grebstein goes deep into the many aspects of his style that I did not particularly see before and it makes me wonder about the true depth of Hemingway's complexity in his writing.

Ernest Hemingway is a very controversial writer due to the themes of violence, despair and

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