Ernest Hemingway and his works are best described by Maxwell Geismar: "His work as a whole has been a sort of literary catalyst which has affected the entire course of American writing, and like a catalyst it has remained untouched by and superior to all the imitations of it" (Geismar).Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 and committed suicide in 1961, after publishing over 21 novels and collections of short stories. His unique and persuasive themes in writing have been greatly appreciated, and the characters and plots of some of his writings are directly related to Hemingway's life and personal matters. Ernest had a great deal of personal honor; he lived his life without regrets and was not ashamed of the things he did. He took his reality and worked it into his novels and stories, hoping and succeeding in teaching his readers things that he learned in life (Allen).
             Hemingway was known for incorporating himself into most of his stories whether he subconsciously talked about a character as if it were himself or talked about himself in the first person in the middle of his story. This characteristic of Hemingway's writings made them standout; catching people's attention much more than the conservative writers of his time. Hemingway was an excellent radical example of being an inimitable and personal writer; "Such writers as Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, and the entire hard-boiled school of American novelists stem from Hemingway's work. Among the new writers, there are talents as varied as Ira Wolfert, and Norman Mailer who show his influence" (Geismar). Since Hemingway had such an interesting and eventful life, it's no wonder he puts himself in most of his stories. "The senseless slaughter that was WWI and his own near death helped form his distinctive style by endowing him with the true modernist's distrust of 'abstract works such as honor and glory'" (Beegel). It ...