Post a comment on this essay Read other users' comments Print this essay New Essays | Popular Essays | Submit an Essay Index: Literature: Hemingway Earnest Hemingway's Works Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was the owner of a prosperous real estate business. His father, Dr. Hemingway, imparted to Ernest the importance of appearances, especially in public. Dr. Hemingway invented surgical forceps for which he would not accept money. He …
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…the Alps with a male friend to return to his wife who is having a baby. In Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants the man wants his sweetheart to have an abortion so that they can continue as they once lived. In To Have and Have Not, Richard Gordon took his wife to "that dirty aborting horror". Catherine's death, in A Farewell to Arms, saves the author's hero from the hell of a complicated life.