Ernest Hemingway

After seeing the Ernest Hemingway documentary, I realize that Ernest Hemingway did not have the life I would have imagined for him. Being so successful and writing all about these worldly experiences, I believed he must have had a life full of adventure and excitement and love. I later realized that his great writing stemmed from his hardest life experiences. I have not read much Ernest Hemingway in my life but now I read his work with an air of compassion. I feel as if he writes about things in great detail, using styles such as Mark Twain along with his own, to get out feelings that cannot quite be expressed into simpler words. Although much of his stories are probably exaggerated, it seems like they all have some truth to them. I honestly wished Ernest Hemingway had written a story about being dressed as a girl and raised as if he was the twin sister to his older girl sibling. I think this would answer a lot of questions that people have about his comfortability with his masculinity and also his sense of self. Because I think if someone dressed me as a boy and made me the twin brother of my older male sibling, no matter what my culture, I would be uncomfortable and possibly permanently affected too. I never knew Ernest Hemingway had deep rooted problems with his masculinity till this documentary, so I would love to reread all the stories we've read now, keeping that in mind for deeper analysis.