Make You Stop Flying Ernest Hemingways Analysis

“Struggle” in a word defines Ernest Hemingway. His relationship with his mother was a significant factor in his writings; it had a devastating effect on his relationships with women. Hemingway’s life turned out to be a sequence of dysfunctional relationships that always seemed to fail his personal needs, leaving him continually searching for the right companion. Hemingway’s disrespect for women can be associated to his belief that his father surrendered his masculinity to his mother Grace. His parents’ relationship lingers in his soul and associates negative undertones with the symbol of being a husband; leaving him in perpetual fear of becoming his father, destroying his marriages, and painting the relationships he portrays in his stories. This essay gives an insight on the association between the life of the American short story writer, novelist, journalist, and poet Ernest Hemingway and his literary works. This paper reflects on the role of the author’s childhood, the effects of women in his life, and the influence of World War I on his …show more content…
They has a torrid sexual relationship. “Make You Stop Flying,” a description of Hemingway’s sexual relations with Mary, attempts to recapture the sleeping bag scenes in “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. Mary, named in the story, breathlessly expresses the rhythm of her orgasm. “Now you come when you like. Oh now I can’t talk. Please my darling. Please dear. Please now. Oh don’t let me talk. No. No. Yes. Oh yes. Oh not please yes please oh please please; yes good oh good.” (Meyers 394) When Hemingway wrote about sex toward the end of his life, he became awkward and embarrassing. As he fell into depression, Mary signed the permission forms for Hemingway’s shock treatments at the Mayo Clinic in 1960. Before his suicide, when Mary left out the key to the gunroom, she gave him the choice of either killing himself or being certified insane. He chose to shoot himself in the