The Life and Work of Ernest HemmingwayAuthor: Hemmingway, ErnestWorks to analyze: "Hills Like White Elephants", "The Sun Also Rises" Ernest Miller Hemmingway was born July 21, 1899 in what is now Oak Park, Illinois. According to an article written by John Walsh in The Independent News Paper, Hemmingway's parents were physically and mentally abusive towards him, stating that his father: "Clarence Hemingway was a barrel-chested, six-foot-tall bully, a disciplinarian who beat her son with a razor strop” and her mother was controlling and mentally abusive by often dressing her like a girl, “She called her, in her pretty lace dress, “Dutch Dolly.” (Walsh2011) He also states that “she also praised him for being good at hunting in the woods and fishing in the stream in boys' clothes. It was too confusing for a sensitive child.” (walsh2011) Walsh believes that this treatment of young Ernest was the cause of a chronic identity crisis. “Now he could be warm and generous or ruthless and authoritarian. His friendships were often unstable (he could become vicious or cruel, even with so-called close friends) and his relationships with women were fraught with conflict. (Walsh.2011) So he spent most of his life trying to appear more masculine and having problems in every relationship throughout his life. This is also seen in his stories, where the characters' relationships with women are always tumultuous, much like his own relationships. In 1918, during World War I, Hemmingway served in the Italian army as an ambulance driver where he was injured and ended up in an accident. hospital in Milan. There he fell in love with a nurse and became engaged, but she then left him for another man. This devastated him but laid the beginning of the paper ......m>.Hemmingway, Ernest Miller. "Hills like white elephants." Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature-Eleventh Shorter Edition. New York: WW Norton & Company, Inc., 2012. 590-594. Print.Shmoop editorial team. “The sun also rises, summary.” shmoop.com.shmoop University, Inc. November 11, 2008. The Web. May 9, 2014. .Shmoop Editorial Team. “Analysis of hills like white elephants.” shmoop.com.shmoop University, inc. November 11, 2008. Web. May 9, 2014. A&E Networks Television. "Ernest Miller Hemmingway". " nd biography.com . nd.Web. May 9, 2014. .Walsh, John. "Being Ernest: John Walsh uncovers the mystery behind Hemingway's suicide." The Independent June 11, 2011. Web. May 9 2014.