Spain, its people, language, and ruthless in-fighting, would mark Hemingway’s most passionate engagement with his time and come to dominate. The civil war began when Catholic officers and their Moorish mercenaries, aided by German and Italian fascists, attacked and tried to overthrow Spain’s democratically elected government. Actually, the opening shots of WWII were fired several years earlier, in the Spanish Civil War. The war between Nazi Germany and the Allies (including Britain, France, the U.S., China, and the Soviet Union), was coming on fast when thousands of miles away Hemingway wrote his two classic short stories set in east Africa.
She forced my father to suicide.” When she died, he did not attend her funeral.Grace, a tomboy who smoked, rode a bicycle, and had “advanced” ideas like women voting, married Clarence Hemingway, the conventional boy. “I hate her guts,” he once wrote, “and she hates mine. You won’t find her exactly represented in any of Ernest’s stories, possibly because his wellknown hostility toward her blocked him from using her as a character. As it must with all of us, it starts with mother.Grace Hall Hemingway, an auburn-haired, lush-bodied, opera-singing, women’s-vote-campaigner, was a complicated woman ahead of her time. And before I published anything, I’d sit for hours at my desk typing and retyping.
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