Ernest Hemingway

A mortar fire at Fossalta di Pivi sent shrapenel into his legs. While Hemingway was injured, he met a nurse and fell in love with her. He proposed marriage, but like Granny Weatherall, he was jilted and his nurse married and Italian officer. Hemingway recovered from his injuries, and with the war coming to an end, he returned home.
             I believe that World War I had a great affect on how Hemingway wrote, and what he wrote about. A lot of Hemingway's stories relate to the war somehow, whether it is directly or indirectly or through symbolism. He normally writes about himself too. The main character, in some way, is usually he. I believe that having a rough childhood and not the best of luck with the ladies left Hemingway without anyone to talk to. After witnessing so much death and destruction, he couldn't just keep that all bottled up inside. So I think that his stories that are about the war, is his way of getting all of this death and destruction off of his chest. It is a way for him to talk about what he went through. Take his story "Big Two Hearted River" for example. That story right there is about himself. He was expressing how he feels through Nick. In this story, the character, nick, describes the town he sees as burned over, and all of the buildings burnt right down to their chipped foun!.
             dation, nothing was left. What Hemingway was describing here is the war, but in a way his own self, his soul. He had been burnt down, right to his chipped foundation. Hemingway uses the character Nick to represent himself. Hemingway writes stories with Nick, using it as a way to heal, a way to get all of these feelings he has from the war to the surface. Hemingway knows that he can't be totally hurt by the war, he knows that there has to be something left in him and that is what e is looking for.
             Hemingway, like many other authors, uses symbols in his stories. Since most of his stories are tied in with his war experience, so are his symbols.