Term Papers on Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

And His

Love Life

Ernest Hemingway is one of the world’s best known authors to date. Aside from being known for his many novels, stories and newspaper columns, Hemingway was known in a more infamous way. Hemingway became known for his many love affairs. Between the years of 1920 and 1961, Hemingway had been married four times to four different women and had many different affairs. Hemingway developed a lack of staying power. He started out romantically involved in each relationship and felt guilty when he had to break them off. After a while, however, breaking up and moving on became nothing more than habit to him. Each of his love interests played a unique and interesting role in Hemingway’s life.

Agnes Von Kurowsky was the first woman to enter Hemingway’s life. Hemingway was an army man who fought in World War II at a young age. While in the war, Hemingway was badly wounded and was sent to a hospital in Milan. According to research, “Hemingway had a machine gun slug in his right foot and another lodged behind his right kneecap. He was nicknamed 'Broken Doll'” (Hulse 5). Hemingway loved the company of the eighteen nurses at the hospital. He especially liked Agnes Von Kurowsky. In the book The Hemingway Women, we read that “The nurses spoiled him and he joked with all of them, but the one who attracted him seriously was Agnes,” (Kert 57). Agnes had come from Washington, D.C. Milan was her first foreign assignment since nursing school. Hemingway was nineteen at this time. He won over Agnes. They began a small affair. Agnes, however, would not let the romance go far. She knew in her mind that this was just a wartime romance and might not progress further. Hemingway wanted to wed Agnes, but she would not have that. She was transferred out of Milan to another hospital. The two would write each other often. When Hemingway recovered, he returned to the war site. Hemingway was soon back in the hospital in Milan with a bad case of jaundice. Agnes came to visit Hemingway a month later. She only stayed for a week, then left to go and look after other troops. When Hemingway recovered, he went to see Agnes at her new station. She was upset with Hemingway’s surprise. It was unprofessional, in her book. Though Hemingway was in love, Agnes did not want to get attached. She was older and wiser and knew of the heartbreak that might come (Hulse 5). They stayed in touch throughout the years, but the relationship finally ended. Agnes sent Hemingway a rejection letter and this crushed him.

Hemingway needed to move on. Though he was upset at the loss of his first love, he was able to fall for another woman. At the age of twenty, Hemingway met a woman by the name of Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. She was twenty-eight years old when they met. Hadley was eight years older than Hemingway when they were married. They were wed on September 3, 1920 at the church in Horton Bay. For their honeymoon, they went to Hemingway’s father’s house on Bear Lake. The couple soon moved into an apartment that was dark and depressing. Neither Hemingway nor Hadley was employed at this time. They were surviving off of Hadley’s trust fund money. They saved up enough money to go to Paris and buy an apartment. Hemingway wrote to his father one time: “Ernest wrote his family that he was living in the best part of the Latin Quarter, when in truth the apartment was squalid and sparsely furnished” (Hulse 7). He told his family this to make him sound better off then he really had been. Hemingway was determined to travel. He went to Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Hadley and Hemingway planned a trip to Spain. Right before this trip Hadley discovered she was with child. The two went to Spain to see the running of the bulls. However, both Hemingway and Hadley wanted their child to be born on American soil, so the couple moved to Canada. John Hadley Nicandor was born. In 1924, the Hemingway family returned to Paris. When Hadley learn...

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