he complained, often about the content of Ernest's articles (www.ernest.hemingway.com). Ernest was clear about his writing; he wanted people to "see and feel" and he wanted to enjoy himself while writing. Ernest loved having fun. If nothing was happening, mischievous Ernest made something happen. He would sometimes use forbidden words just to create trouble. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who he saw as a phoney (Microsoft Encarta 1995, CD ROM). During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Very much like the hero of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest is shot in his knee and gets better in a hospital, tended by a caring nurse named Agnes. Like Frederick Henry, in the book, he fell in love with the nurse and was given a medal for his heroism (World Book Encyclopedia pg 182 1994). He moved in with a friend living in Chicago and he wrote articles for The Toronto Star. In Chicago he met and then married Hadley Richardson. She believed that he should spend all his time in writing, and bought him a typewriter for his birthday. They decided that the best place for a writer to live was Paris, where he could devote himself to his writing. He said, at the time, "that the most difficult thing to write about was being a man". They could not live on income from his stories and so Ernest, again, wrote for The Toronto Star (www.ernest.com). Hadley became pregnant and was sick all the time. She and Ernest decided to move to Canada. He had, then written three stories and ten poems. Hadley gave birth to a boy who they named John Hadley Nicano Hemingway. Even though he had his family Ernest was unhappy and decided to return to Paris. It was in Paris that Ernest got word that a publisher wanted to print his book, In Our Time, but with some changes. The publisher felt that the sex was to blatant, but Ernes...
