ut of place. Another was his personal hygiene; he began refusing to shave and to take baths. Consequently, he began looking rough and unhealthy (P. 383,384). Hemingway’s marriage to Martha was on the decline when he met Mary Welsh, while he was covering the war in London. She would prove to be his fourth and final wife. Mary and Ernest settled down to a domestic life in Cuba. His years with Mary would be “years of his greatest fame and most radical deterioration, of the Nobel Prize as well as the Mayo Clinic.” (Meyers, 1985, P. 418) Hemingway had never received any major literary awards until The Old Man in the Sea; he then won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 and 1954 the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Heritage in Cuba, P. 7) His physical health was declining fast, but more importantly his physiological health was creating an increasing problem due to various reasons: Some were the loss of several close friends to death, a severe case of depression and strange and unusual obsessions. This would be a recurrent theme throughout the remainder of his life.In Cuba, Hemingway was acknowledged as a hero. It was commented that Hemingway was “recognized wherever he went and people cried out “Papa, Papa” as if he were king.” (Meyers, 1985, P. 511) He had been honored by the Batiste government and had received numerous medals. He was loyal to the Cuban government and supported Fidel Castro and his new regime. Hemingway was quoted as saying “This is a good revolution, an honest revolution.” (P. 518) Hemingway had escaped seeing the blood that was spilt during the fighting when Batista fled Cuba in 1958. Luckily, his home had escaped harm; however, he left Cuba for the final time in July of 1960. (P. 519)After several mental breakdowns, two trips to the Mayo Clinic and shock treatments that eventually damaged his memory and put a stop to his writing, he committed suicide on July ...
