Ernest Hemingway

Sullivan 1 Sean Sullivan February 19, 2002 American Literature 1st Period Ernest Hemingway is one of the most renowned writer in American literature. He wrote several novels and short stories. His writing style was very plain and comprehensible. His life was full of tragedies and triumphs. He had several wives and often had a few mistresses. He traveled the world and had an adventurous soul. He conformed his traveling experiences into novels. He was critically acclaimed and won …

…in the way that society expected him to. Suffering from alcoholism, he was losing his memory, growing tired and weary, which made it more excruciating to write great works of literature. Some believe that he was just tired of life and wanted to find a way out. His father’s own suicide might even had persuaded him to end his life. Whatever the reason, the world lost one of its most influential and creative writers.