How Did Ww1 Affect Ernest Hemingway's Writing

A writer who is passionate about what they are writing about will go to great lengths to expose every detail as accurately as it is possible to depict. Ernest Hemingway believed that under any circumstance a war needed to be won, and a soldiers story needed to be told so that the audience can understand the severity of the situations that they face. World War I affected Ernest Hemingway in a negative, but he chose to spend much of his personal time educating the world about the hardships created by battle. During the beginning stages of World War I while Ernest Hemingway was too young to fight, that he was able to sharpen his writing style into what would become a staple for him. President Woodrow Wilson campaigned to allow the U.S. to

This branch sent Hemingway to Constantinople for five days in September of 1922 to cover the short-lived Greco-Turkish war. This was the beginning of a lifelong fascination with first hand journalism of war. A war that ended with the victory of the Turkish over the Greeks in Smyrna.(Martin-Wagner. Pg. 25) Until the start of World War II, Hemingway would work on small projects. World War II began, and then the FBI offered Hemingway a position in intelligence. After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany proposed war on North America by sending under water vessels to patrol Americas Atlantic coast. Germany was targeting oil tankers and other means for American war materials to be exported to its allies in Europe. The German submarines were systematically destroying tankers and other producers of crude materials in three major ports on the southern coast of the U.S. The ports of Aruba, New Orleans, and Houston were all major producers of bauxite, a material used to create aluminum. Without aluminum, the production of airplanes in American allied countries quickly slowed. “During the summer of 1942, the war was close at hand… Hemingway had no way to go to it. Too old for the draft, too controversial for the government, he had few options.” (Wagner-Martin. Pg. 35) Hemingway soon found his ticket to the war, while German submarines were destroying tankers in the Caribbean. Cuba was a known epicenter for spy and counter intelligence activity. Ernest Hemingway was a personal friend of the U.S. ambassador, Spruille Braden, who knew of Hemingway’s interest in intelligence. The FBI assigned Hemingway, to create an intelligence team that would soon become known as the “Crooks Factory.” The team that Hemingway put together was to expose the Spanish loyalist in Cuba that were helping to coordinate attacks in the Caribbean.(Wagner-Martin. Pg. 36) During Hemingway’s time