Stephanie Giles
Professor Nagy
12/01/2016
Hemingway's life reflected in his Fiction
No war is enjoyable, facile or undemanding both mentally and physically, no war ends without claiming casualties, some battles cease much sooner than others, some claim more casualties and see an extremely low morale throughout all sides of the war. World War I was a brutal war that is known for the incorporation of trench warfare in which soldiers from both sides dug massive trenches into the ground, protecting them from small arms fire as well as artillery. The soldiers lived in the trenches for months on end in which they became muddy, rat infested, disease riddled all while the occupants were fighting rifle and bayonet wielding enemies. PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder was not discovered or given the time of day in this time period which makes you wonder how deeply it affected the soldier's brains and future life decisions, Ernest Hemingway, a World War I ambulance driver being one of them.
The topic of Hemingway's life reflections on his fiction is a debatable yet dissonant since his …show more content…
Being an ambulance driver during the war clearly influenced his character of Jake Barnes in his fiction, The Sun Also Rises. Barnes is depicted as a soldier in the war who receives a battle related injury just like Hemingway himself had endured through his time in the war. In Peter L. Hays' The Critical Reception of Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises', Hays describes Barnes as wounded and sexually incapacitated from the war which aside from the latter, seems all too familiar to Hemingway's personal experience in the war (Hays 4). Hemingway was quoted as saying, "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you ..Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to
Professor Nagy
12/01/2016
Hemingway's life reflected in his Fiction
No war is enjoyable, facile or undemanding both mentally and physically, no war ends without claiming casualties, some battles cease much sooner than others, some claim more casualties and see an extremely low morale throughout all sides of the war. World War I was a brutal war that is known for the incorporation of trench warfare in which soldiers from both sides dug massive trenches into the ground, protecting them from small arms fire as well as artillery. The soldiers lived in the trenches for months on end in which they became muddy, rat infested, disease riddled all while the occupants were fighting rifle and bayonet wielding enemies. PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder was not discovered or given the time of day in this time period which makes you wonder how deeply it affected the soldier's brains and future life decisions, Ernest Hemingway, a World War I ambulance driver being one of them.
The topic of Hemingway's life reflections on his fiction is a debatable yet dissonant since his …show more content…
Being an ambulance driver during the war clearly influenced his character of Jake Barnes in his fiction, The Sun Also Rises. Barnes is depicted as a soldier in the war who receives a battle related injury just like Hemingway himself had endured through his time in the war. In Peter L. Hays' The Critical Reception of Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises', Hays describes Barnes as wounded and sexually incapacitated from the war which aside from the latter, seems all too familiar to Hemingway's personal experience in the war (Hays 4). Hemingway was quoted as saying, "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you ..Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to