Ernest Hemingway...

      Ernest Hemingway was, and still is, one of the most influential American Writers in history. His writings revolutionized literature from the Victorian era, to what we now know to be the normal, but like every legendary writer, Hemingway had a complex and strange life. Hemingway, in his older years, was the face of what a man should be, which may have been compensating for his younger years, as his mother dressed him up like a girl for a while.

    Many view Hemingway as, to put it into lightest terms possible, a pig. He moved from woman to woman, typically seeing one while married with the other. I am not defending Hemingway when I say this, but he had a different mentality than others. Hemingway was a man who could not fathom the idea of being alone his entire life, so he was constantly married, but he also had other thirsts he needed quenched (honestly weirdest phrase I have ever written, forgive me).
 
    Like other writers, Hemingway's writings reflected his life, but the way Hemingway depicted these experiences was unlike any other. He wrote in a way that the common person could understand, and freed our minds to imagine any back story possible for different situations. "A Clean Well Lighted Place" shared Hemingway's thoughts on loneliness, which is mankind's greatest fear, to be alone in a place where it is impossible to live alone. Despite Hemingway's real life "monstrosities", it is important to remember only his writings and his influences, not the man. The greatest disappointment in life is to meet your hero...