Ernest Hemingway: A Revolutionary Author.

             The early twentieth century was filled with a myriad of writing styles, but these various styles were very conventional. The highly intellectual writers of this period used flashy adjectives, and most lacked the bravery to fight against conformity. Americans were forced to endure the same polite story lines with the same techniques employed for hundreds of years. Ernest Hemingway was a stark nonconformist that defaced the intellectualist style of the most prevalent authors of the early 1900s. As a novelist, Ernest Hemingway used his unique style and brutal subject matter to forever modify American literature.
             Ernest Miller Hemingway was born to Clarence and Grace Hemingway on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. Clarence was a doctor with a strong passion for the life of an outdoorsman. Most every summer the Hemingway males would leave for Walloon Lake in Michigan. Here Ernest developed a longstanding obsession with rugged individualism. Hemingway had a sister, Marcelline, that was exactly one year older than he, therefore, Grace in a slightly disturbing practice would pair the two siblings as twins. Ernest was often called 'my pretty little girl? orlittle darling?(Kronenberger 120). Grace insisted on exposing her son to 'the world's grand culture,? so she took him to operas and ballets (Warren 40). She was not a woman to be led by a man, for she often humiliated the soft spoken Clarence in public for little or no reason. Grace insisted on owning her own vacation house outside of Chicago forpersonal? use. Clarence later in life committed suicide, and even though Hemingway considered this an act of cowardice, he was quite sure that Grace drove Clarence to take a shot in the head. (Young Scribners 15).
             Hemingway was plagued by an eye injury as a youth, so he was not allowed to fight in the First World War. However, he would not be pushed aside, so he drove ambulances for the Red Cross. Hemingway was brutally injured in Ital...

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