eculation about himself, but he also left behind a legacy. Hemingway changed the face of fictional literature with his style. As Ronald Berman states, Hemingway is concerned with two related problems, telling the truth and staying silent about it (pg. 123). Hemingway spoke the truth in his writings and that was his intent. John Baker, another student of Hemingways work says, No biography can portray a man that he actually was. The best that can be hoped for is an approximation, from which all that is false has been expunged and in most of what is true has been set forth, (vii). He was one of the greatest writers in the history American literature, and did not live long enough to see the lasting impression that was left by the life he lived and wrote about....
