duated from Oak Park High School in 1917 he was given a junior position on the Kansas City Star, a leading newspaper of the period("Ernest Hemingway" par 3).Hemingway was married four times. In September 3, 1921, he married Hadley Richardson. They divorced March 10, 1927. Shortly after in May of 1927, he married his second wife Pauline Feiffer. This marriage ended November 4, 1940. Only seventeen days later he got married again! This time to Marth Gellhorn. They divorced December 21, 1945.Finally, his fourth wife was Mary Welgh. They married March 14, 1946.Ernest published his first book in 1923. It was called "Three Stories and Ten Poems". Years later, his final book "The Snows of Kilimano", was published in 1961.In The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is both disillusioned and emasculated as a result of the war and he establishes his own code of behavior because he no longer believes in the dictutes of society. This is one of many themes in his books.Although he published many books Ernest didn't persue a higher education in college. He did join the Army, and wrote many books while enlisted.Hemingways characters are very much like himself. For example, Nick Adams, a character that spent much of his early youth in the Michigan woods. He was in early stories set in Michigan, such as "Indian Camp", "The Three-Day Blow", and "The Doctor and the -Doctor's Wife". These stories introduce Nick as a vulnerable adolesent attempting to understand a brutal, violent, and confused world. Nick appears tough and insensitive.In "The Old Man and the Sea", Hemingway turned from the theme of love and war to focus on a lone fisherman's struggle to capture a large marlin("Ernest(Miller)Hemingway" par 6). Green3 ...
