... bed because he would often drink himself to sleep. Alcohol dominated Ernest's life as well as his relationships with women. Travel is another theme within this story. Sitting in the Spanish railway station, looking across a plain at distant mountains, the woman compares the features of the plains to the couple's life ... he doesn't want anybody but her and that he knows the operation is perfectly simple. The self-centered nature of the man presented in the story is extremely similar to Ernest's relationships with women. According to his first wife, Hadley Hemingway, Ernest is described as...

• Word Count: 2088
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... by the time Hadley had given birth to a son they named John Hadley Nicano Hemingway. Around 1925, Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises. A year later he was able to finish a story that he had started previously called A Farewell to Arms. Both novels showed Hemingway's obsession with death. During World War II, Ernest became a secret agent for the United States. It was ... Also Rises. In 1927 he wrote another collection of short stories called Men Without Women. In 1929 he wrote another novel entitled A Farewell to Arms. He continued to write short story collections and novels until his dea...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School