A man can be destroyed but not defeated

Death: Ernest Hemmingway the famous modernist writer is dead, 62 years old.

Ernest Hemmingway once said: “A man can be destroyed but not defeated”. Now he is defeated. Ernest Hemmingway is dead, 62 years old. His full name was Ernest Miller Hemmingway. The surname is American and one of the finest within the art of writing. The father was a physician, and his mother a former opera performer. Despite his father’s objections

Success from the beginning

When Ernest Hemmingway began in high school he showed a special talent for writing. He wrote for the school newspaper and for the yearbook Tabula. Hemmingway was so into writing that he decided to drop an education to put all his strength into writing. He got a job at the Kansas City Star, which he got heavily inspired by. His short period of time at the paper influenced his style of writing by using the short declarative statements. Hemmingway selected only the elements essential to the story and push everything else away. He kept his prose direct and unadorned. Using a technique he called “iceberg principle”.   

Alcohol, divorces, moving and depression  

Ernest Hemmingway ended his life at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He spent a lot of time moving around the world in a mix of working and writing. Due to lack of sight Hemmingway could not join the US army. Instead he signed up to drive an ambulance in Italy during World War 1. He was being hospitalized because of a bad injury and fell in love with a nurse who took care of him. Unlucky their relationship did not last. Many people believe that he wrote he famous novel, “A Farewell to Arms”. Ernest Hemmingway also spent several years in Key West. In Key West Hemmingway was able to do the sport he was so in love with: sailing. In more than ten years he sailed and wrote in Key West. In the face of success and wealth, depression and drinking lured underneath. Within the last twenty years of his life he consumed a quarter of whiskey every day. This alcoholism may be the cause of a depression which plagued him in his late life. Martin Schultz.