RikkiLynn's Annotated Bibliography
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RikkiLynn's Annotated Bibliography
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HERLIHY-MERA, JEFFREY. “WHEN HEMINGWAY HATED PARIS: DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS, CONTEMPLATIONS OF SUICIDE, AND THE DELETED CHAPTERS OF ‘THE SUN ALSO RISES.’” Studies in the Novel, vol. 44, no. 1, 2012, pp. 49–61. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23406558.
In 1926, the same year that Hemingway and Hadley Richardson were divorced, Hemingway contemplated suicide, drafted a last will, and wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald, “[I’ve] been in hell now since Christmas.” Due to the fact that Hemingway portrayed Paris to be his favorite city, as well as a city he spent most of his time living and writing in, critics have a hard time accepting the fact that, while there were many high points, there were also many low points. Mera argues that the long-term cultural emersion that Hemingway made himself susceptible to, whether intentionally or unintentionally while residing in Paris, resulted in much more than shocks and readjustments. This claim ultimately suggests that since these aspects of Hemingway’s foreign life are normally overlooked, this dimension of Hemingway’s life in Paris is often neglected, putting other things at the forefront to blame for his suicide attempts, alcoholism, etc. This claim is useful because it justifies that some of Hemingway’s works that were written during his time in Paris, such as A Moveable Feast, may be considered “unreliable on many levels” (50), when determining whether his love for Paris was enabling or disabling in terms of not only his writing career, but also his personal life in general.
DONALDSON, SCOTT. “HEMINGWAY AND SUICIDE.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 103, no.. 2, 1995, pp. 287–295. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27547014.
Donaldson argues that Ernest Hemingway was “fascinated with suicide” (291). Of Hemingway’s seven completed novels, five end in the death of the male protagonist of the story, and one with the death of a heroine. However, Hemingway’s fascination went beyond the novels he wrote about “other people, real or imagined” (291). While Hemingway’s novels all seem to account some sort of “self-destruction,” his life did not seem to fall short of this as well. The subject of suicide to Hemingway become much more than something to write about or talk about. He talked about and wrote about the prospect of taking his own life, one time specifically was the night before his wedding with Hadley, however, after his father committed suicide in December 1928, Hemingway believed that the suicide was not caused by his fathers unhappiness, his diabetes, or the like– Hemingway believes that the main reason for his father’s suicide was his father’s “emasculation by his wife” (292). Donaldson brings in Freud, writing that the death of a father is “the most important event in a man’s life” (292). This claim establishes a dangerous precedent for Hemingway as not only a writer but also a human, being that his father failed at providing Hemingway with an example to follow. This claim is useful because it justifies Hemingway’s interest in self-destruction and suicide– because it was one of the only thing he knew so well. While Hemingway did end up ending his own life, he wrote to Hadley in 1939: “the important thing was not to let discouragement tempt you into taking the easy way out” (293), a quote that emphasizes Hemingway’s ongoing attempt to save his own life.
In 1926, the same year that Hemingway and Hadley Richardson were divorced, Hemingway contemplated suicide, drafted a last will, and wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald, “[I’ve] been in hell now since Christmas.” Due to the fact that Hemingway portrayed Paris to be his favorite city, as well as a city he spent most of his time living and writing in, critics have a hard time accepting the fact that, while there were many high points, there were also many low points. Mera argues that the long-term cultural emersion that Hemingway made himself susceptible to, whether intentionally or unintentionally while residing in Paris, resulted in much more than shocks and readjustments. This claim ultimately suggests that since these aspects of Hemingway’s foreign life are normally overlooked, this dimension of Hemingway’s life in Paris is often neglected, putting other things at the forefront to blame for his suicide attempts, alcoholism, etc. This claim is useful because it justifies that some of Hemingway’s works that were written during his time in Paris, such as A Moveable Feast, may be considered “unreliable on many levels” (50), when determining whether his love for Paris was enabling or disabling in terms of not only his writing career, but also his personal life in general.
DONALDSON, SCOTT. “HEMINGWAY AND SUICIDE.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 103, no.. 2, 1995, pp. 287–295. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27547014.
Donaldson argues that Ernest Hemingway was “fascinated with suicide” (291). Of Hemingway’s seven completed novels, five end in the death of the male protagonist of the story, and one with the death of a heroine. However, Hemingway’s fascination went beyond the novels he wrote about “other people, real or imagined” (291). While Hemingway’s novels all seem to account some sort of “self-destruction,” his life did not seem to fall short of this as well. The subject of suicide to Hemingway become much more than something to write about or talk about. He talked about and wrote about the prospect of taking his own life, one time specifically was the night before his wedding with Hadley, however, after his father committed suicide in December 1928, Hemingway believed that the suicide was not caused by his fathers unhappiness, his diabetes, or the like– Hemingway believes that the main reason for his father’s suicide was his father’s “emasculation by his wife” (292). Donaldson brings in Freud, writing that the death of a father is “the most important event in a man’s life” (292). This claim establishes a dangerous precedent for Hemingway as not only a writer but also a human, being that his father failed at providing Hemingway with an example to follow. This claim is useful because it justifies Hemingway’s interest in self-destruction and suicide– because it was one of the only thing he knew so well. While Hemingway did end up ending his own life, he wrote to Hadley in 1939: “the important thing was not to let discouragement tempt you into taking the easy way out” (293), a quote that emphasizes Hemingway’s ongoing attempt to save his own life.
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