Ernest Hemingway, a great American writer, was born on July 21, 1899 in the suburb of Oak Park in Chicago. He was the son of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician and his mother Grace Hall who was a music teacher. His grandfathers both fought in the Civil War. “Hemingway’s early year were spent largely in combating the repressive feminine influence of his mother and nurturing the masculine influence of his father” (American Biography 1). His mother dressed him as a girl and made him be more feministic, this showed in his writing because he wants to show that he is a real man. He was not allowed to join the armed forces because he had a sight problem, but he volunteered to drive ambulances for the Red Cross. After some time he was attacked and by an …show more content…
Both stories have coming of age because in IC, Nick is realizing that he will not die anytime soon, and in Dr Nick is showing more preference to manly things than staying home with his mother. Nick should have not gone with his father in IC because he saw things that a boy his age should not have seen. His father wants to teach him about what he does as a doctor but his seeing that man who kills himself made him think that he can cheat death and not die. Towards the end of the story Nick realizes that he can not die, his father says the dying is pretty easy. At the end of DR Nick wants to join his father when he does hunting, “ I want to go with you’ Nick said” (Hemingway 103). His father lets him come along because this “allows his father to reassert an authoritative role” (Dramatizations 1). He wants to feel like he is still in charge. I think that Hemingway including such masculine things such as hunting and chopping wood has to do with his mother, when he was a child. He would crave masculine attention and he is giving his character Nick that