serving as the track team manager (1). He also worked on the school newspaper called the .
Trapeze. Hemingway graduated in the spring of 1917 and instead of going to college the .
following fall like his parents expected, he took a job as a reporter for the Kansas City .
Star (Hemingway preface). Hemingway signed up as a volunteer ambulance driver for the .
Red Cross during WWI (Wilson 2). He was accepted in December of 1917, left his job at .
the paper in April of 1918, and sailed for Europe in May (2). When Hemingway returned .
home from Italy in January of 1919 he found Oak Park dull compared to the adventures .
of war (3). With a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway met some .
of Paris' prominent writers and artists and forged quick friendships with them during his .
first few years (4). Counted among those friends were Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia .
Beach, James Joyce, Max Eastman, Lincoln Steffens and Wyndahm Lewis, and he was .
acquainted with the painters Miro and Picasso (4). Hemingway was inspired to write .
different works at different times because of the events that occured in his life. .
Hemingway died July 2, 1961, at his home, as the result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. .
Ernest Hemingway had a different style of writing than the other authors in his .
time. "The Sun Also Rises is the book that established Hemingway as a literary force and .
it introduced the world to the Lost Generation" (Wilson 5). The Lost Generation is .
referred to as the disillusioned that fought in the war. "Two of the novel's main .
characters, Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes, typify the Lost Generation" (1). "This .
book has a lot of thematic issues, but the reader really needs to think to be able to pick up .
on all of them" (2). Friendship, stoicism, and natural grace under pressure are offered as .
the values that matter in an otherwise amoral often-senseless world (1). "His mind is set .
on writing only" (3).
