immortality would have been utterly a loss" (77). Basically, he was a fake, a phony, a false identity. Hemingway trapped himself into an unwanted status amongst the public through the means of the media. It's as if Hemingway was grabbed and thrown into an air tight cell where there was no way out but
             through the taking of his own life.
             Within just seven years of earning one of the most well known and prestigious awards within the field of literature, Hemingway took his own life (Gerard 254). He was portrayed as a man who desired immortality but later realized that he must go head to head, or gun to head is a better description, with the lack of eternity each day (254). It was "a suicide interpreted as the culmination of his belief in taking responsibility for his own life, even the termination of it" (Nagel 1). Hemingway suffered from severe depression and physical decline. His memory was depleted through electric shock therapy that he endured after hospitalization in the Mayo Clinic. On July 2, 1961, at the age of sixty two, Hemingway took his favorite shotgun, put the barrel of the gun to his head, and proceeded to pull the trigger (Gerard 254).
             From that dreary day in history to present day, Hemingway has grown in the eyes and minds of people across the world. Hemingway's "life certified the value of his art. But his art also proved the value of his life" (Valiunas 77). His simplistic and precise writing style, pathway to literature freedom, and hard core devotion to the humanities has left a permanent incision on the world of literature. In his works, Hemingway was immensely influential because of the aspects of modern life that he wrote about. "Hemingway's reputation and influence will forever rest on an uneasy blending of the myth of his personal adventures with the artistic merit of his best fiction" (Nagel 2). Many of his novels and short stories depict a universe that...