Ernest Hemingway was the most widely known American author of his generation, and perhaps of all time. Although an expatriate, through his life and works he touched upon the feelings and needs of countless Americans that were lost in history. These people were and are no less American, just Americans that were changed and scarred by the events that they underwent. Evidence of Hemingway's brilliance and American ideals can also be evidenced by his incredible ... their goals is a reflection of the Puritan work ethic that since the founding of America has been one of the pillars or our ideology....

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... Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane, among others. I found Ernest Hemingway writing fascinating. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill., he began work as a journalist after high school. He was wounded while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. He later became part of a famous group of expatriate writers in Paris, and soon embarked on a life of travel, skiing, fishing, and hunting that would be ... novella, The Old Man and the Sea 1952, which won him a Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. He left Cuba shortly after its 1959 revoluti...

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... to depict himself. Nick's youth is wild and free, just as Hemingway himself lived and led a life of a vagrant, coming face to face with violence and evil on the road. Nick Adams spends his summers in Michigan among the Indians, where he sees life in the raw. Just as Nick sees life in the raw so to does Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway loving neither his family nor school ran ... beauty and format to the everyday American. Not only was Hemingway's style clear and simple, but it was also direct and to the point. Hemingway says during an interview, "The Old Man and The Sea could have been over ...

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