How is Hemingways life reflected in his writing?
Many parallels have been drawn between Hemingway’s life and fiction. Scholars generally agree that Nick Adams is the character who most closely represents Hemingway the man. There is some dissension, however, regarding whether it is in fact Hemingway’s personality or simply his experiences which are being personified by his characters. Most of Hemingway’s fiction is based on his own personal experience. When creating the fiction, he invents from this experience. Read anything by scholar Philip Young, particularly Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration. Young has done some interesting work in regards to the parallels between Hemingway’s life and fiction. He pays particular attention to the injury Hemingway suffered at age eighteen when he served as an ambulance driver for the Italian army, and how and why this episode resurfaces in his literature. Also, Carlos Baker’s biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story provides a detailed account of the many parallels existing between the events in
