Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. ... War was one of Hemingway's most common themes. ... Hemingway was known as an "expert in the areas of war, bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, big-game hunting, and reckless, extravagant living--experiences that he often recounted in his fiction" (Shaffer 1). ... Hemingway's nurse did not die, though. She instead left him for an older man very abruptly. ...

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