20) American Literature II. - Ernest Hemingway
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4th wife Mary Welsh
After WW2
o health problems
high blood pressure
diabetes
1954
o Victim of 2 planes crushes
1st sight seeing flight = plane fell down => injury of head
2nd next day transport to hospital => plane exploded
everybody thought he was dead but he was not => he was reading his
obituaries (nekrology) (and he liked it)
since then
o physical (painkillers and drinks = not helping too much) and psychological problems
(thought FBI was following him)
o 1961 attempt to commit suicide
Hodpital Mayo Clinic (electric shock treatment)
o 2 days after leaving the hospital commited suicide (he had hemochromatosis = also
his father, sister and brother had sommited suicide)
STYLE
excellent narrator
short stories – iceberg theory (facts above water, supporting structure + symbols = under
water
THEMES
o war, love, loss
o inspiration in his life
NOVELS
o A Farewell to Arms
o For Whom The Bell Tolls
o The Old Man and The Sea
The Old Man and The Sea
I tis about Old man named Santiago who never gives up fishing and he decides to go fishing
for the last time for the biggest fish he ever have hunted. But when he finds the biggest fish
he also finds sharks which eat up all the fish until he turns back to the port. But when the
others fishmans see the skelet of the enormous fish he have hunted. They admire Santiago
as the best fishman in history. It shows the power and devotion of Santiago to the fishing and
his pride.