... played too much backgammon. Hemingway himself had drunk too much. He later became depressed primarily because of his two failed marriages. But in 1940 at Cheyenne, Wyoming he remarried writer Martha Gellhorn. Together they took a trip to China and then settled in Cuba. After a while some signs of suicide were becoming apparent. In 1942 Hemingway offered his yacht "Pilar" to the ... ...

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... on its own (Straus 651). The theory that Kafka's novella, "The Metamorphosis" refers to the metamorphosis that occurs in Gregor's sister, Grete, can be supported by analyzing Kafka's biography and early life in Prague. Kafka was the eldest of six children, three of whom were his sisters named, Gabriele, Valerie, and Ottilie (Nervi, "Kafka's Life"). Kafka was ... ...

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