There is great power in being an author; authors can make things happen which do not necessarily occur in real life. All fiction is autobiographical; no matter how obscure from the author’s experience it may be; marks of their life can be dedicated in any of their tales. Hemingway felt, as a young child and throughout his life, powerless, and so he created lives by writing stories. Hemingway acted out his feelings of inadequacy …showed first 75 words of 1782 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1782 total…life when he wrote; using everything he did and everything that ever happened to him. He nevertheless remained a private person wanting his stories to be read but wanting to be left alone. He once said, "Don't look at me. Look at my words." A common theme throughout Hemingway's stories is that no matter how hard we fight to live, we end up defeated, but we are here and we must go on. Word count 2000