Associate Professor, S.V. College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 11 July, 2017.
A few writers have been so deeply autobiographical as Hemingway. Besides being a famous writer, he was well-known as hunter, fisherman, skier, boxer, reporter, soldier, bullring and saloon aficionado. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July, 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Hemingway was severely wounded by an Austrian mortar shell while he was handing out chocolate to a group of Italian soldiers. Hemingway was excruciated by the horrors of the war front, its gruesome sights and metallic sounds. For a long time he could not forget that hell. He was in a state of shock. He suffered from insomnia and so did many of his fictional characters. In 1922 and 1923, Hemingway travelled extensively through Europe as a free-lance journalist for his assignment with the Toronto Daily Star. Most of the characters in The Sun Also Rises have suffered somehow either in the war or as a result of the war. Drink, sex and sports like fishing and bull-fighting are opiates at best because they are a temporary means of escape from inner turmoil.
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