Hemingway’s life is best told through his family in the documentary entitled, Ernest Hemingway Wrestling with Life, directed by Steve Crisman. Hemingway, born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, was dressed as a girl and raised as the twin of his older sister, Margaux Hemingway, until the age of six. All throughout childhood his mother would remind him and his siblings that she could have been a great opera star “if it weren 't for you children”(Ernest Hemingway Wrestling with Life). Hemingway became a man’s man on the hunting and fishing trips he would take with his father throughout childhood. His father was strict and would often beat him with a razor strop when he misbehaved. Despite this constant abuse, Hemingway wished to please his parents and would at times whip himself, “so that Mama won’t have to.” (Ernest Hemingway Wrestling with
Hemingway’s life is best told through his family in the documentary entitled, Ernest Hemingway Wrestling with Life, directed by Steve Crisman. Hemingway, born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, was dressed as a girl and raised as the twin of his older sister, Margaux Hemingway, until the age of six. All throughout childhood his mother would remind him and his siblings that she could have been a great opera star “if it weren 't for you children”(Ernest Hemingway Wrestling with Life). Hemingway became a man’s man on the hunting and fishing trips he would take with his father throughout childhood. His father was strict and would often beat him with a razor strop when he misbehaved. Despite this constant abuse, Hemingway wished to please his parents and would at times whip himself, “so that Mama won’t have to.” (Ernest Hemingway Wrestling with