The old waiter said: "It's just insomnia after all. There must be many people with this disease." Insomnia is a symptom of that painful complication that Hemingway, his protagonist and (" There must be a lot of people suffering from this disease") His compatriots were tortured. Philip Young made an excellent and well-reasoned psychological analysis of Hemingway's personality, proposing an argument that the emotions caused by his trauma were beyond his rational control. In his later years, Hemingway repeatedly and obsessively searched for similar experiences to exorcise the mental trauma; if he could not do this, he continued to recreate the event through creation and thinking in order to control the arousal it aroused. worries.
Young wisely points out that Hemingway was ultimately concerned with art, not trauma. However, on a local scale, Young's theory of personality can unify Hemingway's person and his work. Moreover, for Hemingway's observation of war, this doctrine has a special meaning for the artist. "A Farewell to Arms" and several short stories brilliantly describe the social, emotional and moral implications of war, but it was not just this description that made his war experience "valuable": it forged a spiritual His views on human destiny influenced almost all of his works. Mortar shrapnel became a metaphor for the destructive forces of a cruel world, and Hemingway and his protagonists became symbols of wounded humanity seeking a way to survive. He was almost ready to translate that feeling of life into literary works.
In the five years after he received the Red Medal of Valor, he slowly but purposefully worked hard on his writing career. Oak Park welcomed its hero back with enthusiasm, but Hemingway's parents—especially his mother—were bored because the young man had no other ambitions than to write and was more than willing to accept the family's support. At one time he wrote features for Toronto's Daily Star and Star Weekly. His sister, Marcy Linney, wrote that he had just celebrated his twenty-first birthday when his mother gave him an ultimatum: Find a permanent job or move out. Hemingway moved out and spent a year in Chicago as editor of Cooperative Welfare, a newspaper promoting cooperative investments. That winter, he met Sherwood Andersen, his first important friend in the literary world, and through Andersen, he met other members of the "Chicago Group." At the same time he met and fell in love with Hadley Richardson, a beautiful redhead eight years his senior. In September 1921, Hemingway married Hadley, spent their honeymoon at the family's country house, and then went to Toronto to work as a feature reporter for several months.
However, what he really needed was Europe, the space and time to write. The Hemingways decided to accept a job as a part-time reporter stationed abroad.
For the next two years, Hemingway became the Star's traveling correspondent in Europe, living in Paris and writing reports on international conferences in Geneva and Lausanne, including concise and dramatic dispatches from the Greek War. He occasionally writes lighthearted but sharply observed impressions about skiing in Switzerland, bullfighting in Spain, and postwar life in Germany. His early journalistic training, coupled with a natural fondness for brevity, had become a style that was made even more powerful by the telegrams he now wrote—condensed, compact.
At the same time, he was writing novels and poems, and was trying to find a publisher to publish one of his things, but (since 1918) had not been able to find one. In 1922 a rapid series of events accelerated his hopes, and then he was disappointed. With a letter of introduction from Sherwood Andersen, he took his works to Gertrude Stein, whose salon on the Rue Fleurus was the home of Ezra Pound and James Jones. and Ford. Madox Ford and other expatriate art centers. Stein liked this young man. He looked almost like a mainlander and his eyes were "curious and emotional." She encouraged him to become a writer, but advised him to give up his job as a journalist completely and revise his prose to be more concise. : "There is a lot of description here, but it is not very well written. Start from the beginning and write more concentratedly." Pound also liked this new writer, walking and boxing with him, and encouraged him to continue writing poetry. In May and June, Hemingway published his first public works - a two-page satirical allegory "The Miraculous Gesture" and a four-line poem "At Last". The gap left by Faulkner's six-stanza poem. A New Orleans magazine, Two-faced, published both pieces, and his luck was again due to the help of Sherwood Andersen.
The disaster occurred when he attended the Lausanne Peace Conference in late 1922. He agreed to ask Hadley to meet him with a suitcase, and Hadley packed almost all of his manuscripts in this suitcase (a few were mailed). At the Gare de Lyon in Paris, she put her suitcase in the carriage without warning. When she came back a while later, she found that the suitcase was missing. A few years later, Hemingway wrote to Carlos Becker that the incident caused him so much pain that he "wanted to have surgery so he wouldn't have to think about it." Hemingway had no choice but to start over, this time. A stunning success. In 1923, several of his works were published in publications. Harriet Munro published his first short poem in Poetry (January 1924); Margaret Anderson and Jean Heap published it in The Little Review (1924). In April 1923, he published six short stories (*** eighteen short stories, originally planned to be published in January of the following year, with the general title "In Our Time"); in the summer of 1923, Robert McCamman published Hemingway's first work, "Three Stories and Ten Poems" (the three stories were "In Michigan", "My Old Man" and "Out of Time")
Although the future was promising. It seemed certain, but there were practical obstacles on the way. Hadley was pregnant, and the couple had almost no money. They agreed to go back to Toronto for two years and then come to Paris when they had enough money. By then, he could devote himself to writing. John Hadley ("Bomby") Hemingway left Paris in August 1923, but by January 1924, the Hemingways had returned to Paris and Montparnasse. Hemingway's steps towards success were delayed again because he had to spend part of his time working to support his family. Not having enough to eat was documented in "A Moveable Banquet," but he continued to write, as Stein observed, "He wrote very seriously and wanted to be a writer." The breakthrough came in 1925 - -Perhaps with the help of two influential supporters, Edmund Wilson had already shown Hemingway's works to Scott Fitzgerald before he knew him, and Fitzgerald was very impressed. Deep, and urged Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's to ask for the manuscript.