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American author and Nobel Prize winner. Has written some of the most famous ProseFiction in the English language. First 20th Century writer to get away with the word "fuck". Master of BeigeProse. Fought in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, [[IntrepidReporter covered]] [[WorldWarII the sequel]]. Wrestled lions. Flew airplanes. Caught big fish. Owned and loved a clowder of polydactyl cats. [[RealMenWearPink Made Mojitos and Daiquiris manly]]. [[AteHisGun Shot himself.]] Shortly before his suicide, claimed to a friend that the FBI was monitoring him. [[ProperlyParanoid He was right.]]
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American author and Nobel Prize winner. Has written some of the most famous ProseFiction in the English language. First 20th Century writer to get away with the word "fuck". Master of BeigeProse. Fought in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, [[IntrepidReporter covered]] [[WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the sequel]]. Wrestled lions. Flew airplanes. Caught big fish. Owned and loved a clowder of polydactyl cats. [[RealMenWearPink Made Mojitos and Daiquiris manly]]. [[AteHisGun Shot himself.]] Shortly before his suicide, claimed to a friend that the FBI was monitoring him. [[ProperlyParanoid He was right.]]
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** ''TheSunAlsoRises'': Jake Barnes' struggles with traditional masculinity after WorldWarOne UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne is one of the [[CentralTheme central themes]] of the book. Comes with a pretty [[TheLoinsSleepTonight symbolic injury]] as well.
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** ''TheOldManAndTheSea'': The last book Hemingway ever saw published himself was also fittingly his last [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] reconstruction of his philosophy of manhood. Santiago catches the fish, but it [[SenselessSacrifice gets eaten by sharks]] and [[spoiler: [[MentorOccupationalHazard it's implied he dies at the end]]]]. Nevertheless, he still passes his lessons on to the boy, and most importantly, [[DoomedMoralVictor the fish never beat him]]. His DoomedMoralVictor is even cemented by a literary CrucifiedHeroShot.
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** ''TheOldManAndTheSea'': The last book Hemingway ever saw published himself was also fittingly his last [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] reconstruction of his philosophy of manhood. Santiago catches the fish, but it [[SenselessSacrifice gets eaten by sharks]] and [[spoiler: [[MentorOccupationalHazard it's implied he dies at the end]]]]. Nevertheless, he still passes his lessons on to the boy, and most importantly, [[DoomedMoralVictor the fish never beat him]]. His DoomedMoralVictor status is even cemented by a literary CrucifiedHeroShot.
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* BrokenAce: Most of his protagonists. Manliness was an overarching theme in many of his works. He often explored the topic through [[SubvertedTrope subversions]], [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructions]], and perhaps a few [[ReconstructedTrope reconstructions]] of TheAce. To wit:
** ''TheSunAlsoRises'': Jake Barnes' struggles with traditional masculinity after WorldWarOne is one of the [[CentralTheme central themes]] of the book. Comes with a pretty [[TheLoinsSleepTonight symbolic injury]] as well.
** ''AFarewellToArms'': Frederic Henry is probably one of the most straightforward examples of TheAce in Hemingway's bibliography, bordering on TestosteronePoisoning, yet he still can't find happiness after he leaves the war behind, as symbolized by the major DownerEnding of [[ItWasHisSled Catherine and his child's death.]]
** ''ForWhomTheBellTolls'': Robert Jordan is a {{badass}} DemolitionsExpert and [[LaResistance partisan]] in the SpanishCivilWar, but has also led an entirely empty and lonely life since his father [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]]. He doesn't even realize the depths of his loneliness until he's dragged out of it by the new family he finds amongst the partisans he's sent to work with. [[spoiler: But the same work that sent him to the partisans is eventually what gets him killed.]]
** ''TheOldManAndTheSea'': The last book Hemingway ever saw published himself was also fittingly his last [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] reconstruction of his philosophy of manhood. Santiago catches the fish, but it [[SenselessSacrifice gets eaten by sharks]] and [[spoiler: [[MentorOccupationalHazard it's implied he dies at the end]]]]. Nevertheless, he still passes his lessons on to the boy, and most importantly, [[DoomedMoralVictor the fish never beat him]]. His DoomedMoralVictor is even cemented by a literary CrucifiedHeroShot.
** ''TheSunAlsoRises'': Jake Barnes' struggles with traditional masculinity after WorldWarOne is one of the [[CentralTheme central themes]] of the book. Comes with a pretty [[TheLoinsSleepTonight symbolic injury]] as well.
** ''AFarewellToArms'': Frederic Henry is probably one of the most straightforward examples of TheAce in Hemingway's bibliography, bordering on TestosteronePoisoning, yet he still can't find happiness after he leaves the war behind, as symbolized by the major DownerEnding of [[ItWasHisSled Catherine and his child's death.]]
** ''ForWhomTheBellTolls'': Robert Jordan is a {{badass}} DemolitionsExpert and [[LaResistance partisan]] in the SpanishCivilWar, but has also led an entirely empty and lonely life since his father [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]]. He doesn't even realize the depths of his loneliness until he's dragged out of it by the new family he finds amongst the partisans he's sent to work with. [[spoiler: But the same work that sent him to the partisans is eventually what gets him killed.]]
** ''TheOldManAndTheSea'': The last book Hemingway ever saw published himself was also fittingly his last [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] reconstruction of his philosophy of manhood. Santiago catches the fish, but it [[SenselessSacrifice gets eaten by sharks]] and [[spoiler: [[MentorOccupationalHazard it's implied he dies at the end]]]]. Nevertheless, he still passes his lessons on to the boy, and most importantly, [[DoomedMoralVictor the fish never beat him]]. His DoomedMoralVictor is even cemented by a literary CrucifiedHeroShot.
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* In the {{Timeline-191}} series, he's an ambulance driver during the equivalent of World War I as in real history, but is wounded in the groin and left with severe damage. He only writes a single non-fiction book before killing himself, this time taking his girlfriend with him.
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* FriendlyRivalry: Was in one with fellow writer FScottFitzgerald. Fitzgerald admired Hemingway's style: Hemingway admired Fitzgerald's lifestyle.
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* BeastlyBloodsports: Hemingway was a big fan of bullfighting. Metaphysically, he considered the deliberate danger that a matador puts himself in as symbolic of the essence of life as a whole. Naturally, this symbolism cropped up frequently in his works.
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American author and Nobel Prize winner. Has written some of the most famous ProseFiction in the English language. First 20th Century writer to get away with the word "fuck". Master of BeigeProse. Fought in WorldWarI, UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, [[IntrepidReporter covered]] [[WorldWarII the sequel]]. Wrestled lions. Flew airplanes. Caught big fish. Owned and loved a clowder of polydactyl cats. [[RealMenWearPink Made Mojitos and Daiquiris manly]]. [[AteHisGun Shot himself.]] Shortly before his suicide, claimed to a friend that the FBI was monitoring him. [[ProperlyParanoid He was right.]]
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: He wrote about WorldWarI UsefulNotes/WorldWarI where he served as an ambulance driver and the SpanishCivilWar UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar where he was present as a journalist. He also wrote stories about hunting, fishing and boxing, all things he had personal experience with.
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American author and Nobel Prize winner. Has written some of the most famous ProseFiction in the English language. First 20th Century writer to get away with the word "fuck". Master of BeigeProse. Fought in WorldWarI, [[IntrepidReporter covered]] [[WorldWarII the sequel]]. Wrestled lions. Flew airplanes. Caught big fish. Owned and loved a clowder of polydactyl cats. [[RealMenWearPink Made Mojitos and Daiquiris manly]]. [[AteHisGun Shot himself.]] Shortly before his suicide, claimed to a friend that the FBI was monitoring him. [[ProperlyParanoid He was right.]]
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* Various short story anthologies, such as ''Men Without Women'' and ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro''.
** Famous shorts include "The Killers," "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," and "Hills Like White Elephants."
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* NoodleIncident: The frozen corpse of a leopard at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro ("The Snows of Milimanjaro"). "No one knows quite what the leopard was doing up here."
* DownerEnding: Not a lot of his heroes end up happy at the end of the story. [[spoiler:Not a lot of them end up alive, either.]]
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American author and NobelPrize Nobel Prize winner. Has written some of the most famous ProseFiction in the English language. First 20th Century writer to get away with the word "fuck". Master of BeigeProse. Fought in WorldWarI, [[IntrepidReporter covered]] [[WorldWarII the sequel]]. Wrestled lions. Flew airplanes. Caught big fish. [[RealMenWearPink Made Mojitos and Daiquiris manly]]. [[AteHisGun Shot himself.]] Shortly before his suicide, claimed to a friend that the FBI was monitoring him. [[ProperlyParanoid He was right.]]
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American author and NobelPrize winner. Has written some of the most famous ProseFiction in the English language. First 20th Century writer to get away with the word "fuck". Master of BeigeProse. Fought in WorldWarI, [[IntrepidReporter covered]] [[WorldWarII the sequel]]. Wrestled lions. Flew airplanes. Caught big fish. [[RealMenWearPink Made Mojitos and Daiquiris manly.manly]]. [[AteHisGun Shot himself.]] Shortly before his suicide, claimed to a friend that the FBI was monitoring him. [[ProperlyParanoid He was right.]]
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* RatedMForManly: Hemingway was the epitome of manhood, as described above.
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->''“He is without question one of the most courageous men I have ever known. Fear was a stranger to him.”''
-->'''Colonel “Buck” Lanham'''
American author and NobelPrize winner. Has written some of the most famous ProseFiction in the English language. First 20th Century writer to get away with the word "fuck". Master of BeigeProse. Fought in WorldWarI, [[IntrepidReporter covered]] [[WorldWarII the sequel]]. Wrestled lions. Flew airplanes. Caught big fish. Made Mojitos and Daiquiris manly. [[AteHisGun Shot himself.]] Shortly before his suicide, claimed to a friend that the FBI was monitoring him. [[ProperlyParanoid He was right.]]
One of the most MemeticBadass writers in western literature. (Did you see the part about wrestling lions?) Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld is pretty much an expy of him.
!!Books by this author:
* ''Literature/TheSunAlsoRises'' (1927)
* ''Literature/AFarewellToArms'' (1929)
* ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' (1940)
* ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'' (1951)
* ''A Moveable Feast'' (1964, posthumous)
* ''{{Death in the Afternoon}}''
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!!Tropes by this author:
* SignatureStyle: The "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory iceberg theory]]": leave out everything you can.
** BeigeProse: He omits needless words.
** ShowDontTell: Vivid physical descriptions and [[ShownTheirWork serious research]] avoid the topic at hand. "[[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion Hills Like White Elephants]]" is an argument about an operation. "[[ShellShockedVeteran Big Two-Hearted River]]" depicts a man focusing exclusively on fishing.
** {{Subtext}}/FridgeBrilliance: The actual point of the story is ''always'' left out. Sometimes the climax is too: "Out Of Season" ends before [[DrivenToSuicide the twist]].
* WriteWhatYouKnow: He wrote about WorldWarI where he served as an ambulance driver and the SpanishCivilWar where he was present as a journalist. He also wrote stories about hunting, fishing and boxing, all things he had personal experience with.
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->''“He is without question one of the most courageous men I have ever known. Fear was a stranger to him.”''
-->'''Colonel “Buck” Lanham'''
American author and NobelPrize winner. Has written some of the most famous ProseFiction in the English language. First 20th Century writer to get away with the word "fuck". Master of BeigeProse. Fought in WorldWarI, [[IntrepidReporter covered]] [[WorldWarII the sequel]]. Wrestled lions. Flew airplanes. Caught big fish. Made Mojitos and Daiquiris manly. [[AteHisGun Shot himself.]] Shortly before his suicide, claimed to a friend that the FBI was monitoring him. [[ProperlyParanoid He was right.]]
One of the most MemeticBadass writers in western literature. (Did you see the part about wrestling lions?) Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld is pretty much an expy of him.
!!Books by this author:
* ''Literature/TheSunAlsoRises'' (1927)
* ''Literature/AFarewellToArms'' (1929)
* ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' (1940)
* ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'' (1951)
* ''A Moveable Feast'' (1964, posthumous)
* ''{{Death in the Afternoon}}''
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!!Tropes by this author:
* SignatureStyle: The "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory iceberg theory]]": leave out everything you can.
** BeigeProse: He omits needless words.
** ShowDontTell: Vivid physical descriptions and [[ShownTheirWork serious research]] avoid the topic at hand. "[[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion Hills Like White Elephants]]" is an argument about an operation. "[[ShellShockedVeteran Big Two-Hearted River]]" depicts a man focusing exclusively on fishing.
** {{Subtext}}/FridgeBrilliance: The actual point of the story is ''always'' left out. Sometimes the climax is too: "Out Of Season" ends before [[DrivenToSuicide the twist]].
* WriteWhatYouKnow: He wrote about WorldWarI where he served as an ambulance driver and the SpanishCivilWar where he was present as a journalist. He also wrote stories about hunting, fishing and boxing, all things he had personal experience with.
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