t refused to change one word.(Microsoft Encarta 1995, CD ROM). In 1927, Ernest found himself unhappy with his wife and son. They decided to divorce and he married Pauline, a woman he had been involved with while he was married to Hadley. A year later, Ernest was able to complete his war novel which he called A Farewell to Arms. The novel was about the pain of war, of finding love in this time of pain. It portrayed the battles, the retreats, the fears, the gore and the terrible waste of war (www.ernest.hemingway.com). This novel was given the thumbs up by his publisher, Max Perkins, but Ernest had to substitute dashes for the bad language. Ernest used his life when he wrote using everything he did and everything that ever happened to him. He nevertheless remained a private person wanting his stories to be read but wanting to be left alone. He once said, "Don't look at me. Look at my words." A common theme throughout Hemingway's stories is that no matter how hard we fight to live, we end up defeated, but we are here and we must go on (www.ernest.com). At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to become an antiwar correspondent. Martha went to Spain as a war correspondent and they lived together. He knew that he was hurting Pauline, but like his need to travel and have new experiences, he could not stop himself from getting involved with women (Microsoft Bookshelf 1995, CD ROM). In 1940 he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and dedicated it to Martha, whom he married at the end of that year. He found himself traveling between Havana, Cuba and Ketchum, Idaho. During World War II, Ernest became a secret agent for the United ...
