Hemingway (10-26-14)

   
      Ernest Hemingway was known to be the greatest writer of his time. I believe his work is rather impressive and unique compared to other authors' writing. Perhaps that is why so many believe him to be one of the best authors in American literature. One aspect of his writing that is impressive to me, is that all of his stories follow the "iceberg theory". The iceberg theory is that in a story there is the surface, this is what you read and what you are told in the story. However, there is something beneath the surface the deeper meaning of that story in which the reader has to figure out what that is. I think that this a genius theory that he created and help get a deeper understanding in not only his stories, but any other stories that the reader is required to think deeper about the text. Ernest Hemingway was a great writer, however how he is as a person is a very different story. 
      Ernest Hemingway was not a bad person, however there were some choices he made in his life that are rather questionable. Those life choices he made are of course heavily influenced on his childhood, in which he didn't have the best relationship with his mother. This might be why so many of his relationships ultimately failed or why he had so many affairs. The way he treated his children based on what the       documentary said, was that when they came he would give them his full attention and take them to do many things. However when he doesn't see them they no longer exist, he didn't try to talk to them or contact them at all. The balance of how he treated his children was a little off, one extreme to the next, which could show that there was something in unstable in Ernest Hemingway as well. Either way for those reasons, his own personal struggles and experiences that are reflected in his writing is what made him so legendary and unique. Ernest Hemingway told stories about life just the way they were, that is why I think Ernest Hemingway is a great writer, but a man who sometimes not always did the right thing.