Ernest Hemingway Wrestling With Life Analysis

Fitzgerald’s luxurious life seemed to spiral downwards after his wife was admitted not once but twice into a mental institution. This was in 1934, several years after her affair with an aviator and the crumbling of her marriage to Fitzgerald. The last years of Fitzgerald’s life are spent writing a series of telling pieces. The first, released in 1934, was called Tender Is the Night (Sincerely F Scott Fitzgerald). The initial reception of this novel was not overwhelming. Instead, its fame steadily grew after Fitzgerald’s death similar to how the price of artwork increases once the artists offs themselves. The second piece in 1934 was a series of essays known as The Crack Up. Originally published in Esquire magazine, the essays were more of a confession than an artistic piece (Laing 84). Fitzgerald struggled as a playwright for a couple of years before he became disgusted with Hollywood. Fitzgerald retired to Grove …show more content…
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