Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was the great American novelist and short story writer and was also a winner of both Nobel and Pulitzer Prize. His works left a deep impression on modern literature and contributed to renew story, novel writing style. Hemingway tells many interesting stories, and his "zero ending," against traditional "well-made" ending makes him more brilliant and influences the form of the modern short story. His reflection on the consequence of the World War I influenced the entire generation of writers and artists of the "Lost Generation." During his whole life, because of influences from his mom and married 4 times, he feels antipathy for women and often ignore women. He also display this attitude in his short stories such as he used women almost solely for the male protagonist, they are emotional and depend on male.
About his mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, she was a dictatorial woman who dressed Ernest as a girl and name him Ernestine. Not only that, she also had a habit of abusing his ease father, who had diabetes, and this events begin making Ernest Hemingway feel a kind of odium toward women even his mother. Beside, Agnes von Kurowsky (his first lover)’s treachery also contributed apart to establish Hemmingway’s enmity on women. He Hemingway meets and falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky and they planned to marry but she becomes to engaged to an Italian office worker in March 1919. In 1927 he divorces Hadley Richardson and marries Pauline