History Creator / ErnestHemingway

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* SignatureStyle: The "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory iceberg theory]]": leave out everything you can. This is a [[LoveItOrHateIt very polarizing]] style of writing, with people usually either calling Hemingway a genius or a terrible writer.

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]] [[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.]]

* DeceptiveDisciple: Disciple might be a little high a title, but he was a protege under Sherwood Anderson. Only to turn on him and treat him as a joke. Sadly, he's not the only protege to do that to Sherwood Anderson.
* FriendlyRivalry: Was in one with fellow writer Creator/FScottFitzgerald. Fitzgerald admired Hemingway's style: Hemingway admired Fitzgerald's lifestyle.

* RatedMForManly: Hemingway was the epitome of manhood, as described above.

* 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.
* BeigeProse[=/=]BoringButPractical: Hemingway's stylistic trademark.
* 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.

* 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.]]

* WriteWhatYouKnow: He wrote about UsefulNotes/WorldWarI where he served as an ambulance driver and the 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.

* 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:
** ''Literature/TheSunAlsoRises'': Jake Barnes' struggles with traditional masculinity after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI is one of the [[CentralTheme central themes]] of the book. Comes with a pretty [[TheLoinsSleepTonight symbolic injury]] as well.
** ''Literature/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.]]
** ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'': Robert Jordan is a badass DemolitionsExpert and [[LaResistance partisan]] in the UsefulNotes/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.]]
** ''Literature/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.

** "The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"

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!! Portrayals In Fiction:

* FriendlyRivalry: Was in one with fellow writer FScottFitzgerald. Fitzgerald admired Hemingway's style: Hemingway admired Fitzgerald's lifestyle.

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-->'''Colonel “Buck” Lanham'''

** ''Literature/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.]]

* NoodleIncident: The frozen corpse of a leopard at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro"). "No one knows quite what the leopard was doing up here."

* Portrayed in ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs'' as having just sworn to "never put pen to paper again" after suffering an intense writer's block. Then he meets the Warner siblings, who just want him to sign for a delivery, and by the end of the episode he's become inspired to write again by adopting his famous BeigeProse.

* An episode of CelebrityDeathmatch has WWF Wrestler Mankind (voiced by himself) allowed to fight anyone he wishes to the death, including already dead people thanks to their Celebrity Deathmatch Timemachine. Mankind choose to fight against [[spoiler: and defeated]] Ernest Hemingway.

** ''Literature/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.]]

** ''Literature/TheSunAlsoRises'': Jake Barnes' struggles with traditional masculinity after UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne is one of the [[CentralTheme central themes]] of the book. Comes with a pretty [[TheLoinsSleepTonight symbolic injury]] as well.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Anyone who writes fiction today, on an amateur or professional level, is to some degree influenced by Hemingway, whether they know it or not. As a result, it may be difficult for some to grasp the originality of his writing and the change it had on American literature.

* AdaptationExpansion: Happens to the film versions - two so far, the second one infamously casting RonaldReagan as the villain - of "The Killers," where the movies try to delve into [[NoodleIncident the mysterious motives]] of two hitmen ''and'' their target that the short story brilliantly refuses to answer.

** BeigeProse: He omits needless words.

* 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."

** ''TheSunAlsoRises'': Jake Barnes' struggles with traditional masculinity after UsefulNotes/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 status is even cemented by a literary CrucifiedHeroShot.