larities between Frederic and Hemingways actual life, there is no wonder why this mans novels were so great. The creativity and emotional energy in all of his literature developed into a successful pattern (McCaffery pg. 115). Desnoyers says that He was great at putting things together and made up whatever was needed to suit his artistic purposes. It was right after the war that Hemingway began writing this novel, but it was during the war that Hemingways first wife, Hadley, gave birth to his first child, John. Soon after the war though, Hemingway got a divorced and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They moved to Key West, Florida, and it was there that Hemingway got the news that his father had committed suicide. It would seem that Hemingway was in love with life. He had his new bride; they were expecting a child and living in a beautiful area. Then he got the telegram informing him of his fathers death and all of a sudden he was at an emotion low. When he became a middle-aged man, Hemingways opinion on his mother and fathers situation had changed. He took notice to the way his mother controlled his father which led him to now believe that she castrated his father. Hemingway now hated his mother because he blamed her for his fathers suicide and this hatred grew stronger once he became aware of how he was treated as a child. He was angry that his mother never truly assigned him a specific gender (cocoa pg.1). With the swing in his emotions favoring his father and not his mother, Hemingway felt that his father, who he at one time wished to kill, did not deserver to die. The same empty and lonely feeling that Frederic felt at the end are clearly the same feelings that Hemingway felt after his fathers suicide. The style in which this novel also gives an indication that he is drawing from his real life experiences. Jackson J. Benson explains it that Hemingway was able to assume the both the father and the son roles and both an objecti...
