I have a vestigial urge to defend Hemingway because I bed and met my first college gf due in part to a conversation at a rush party where I asserted that Hemingway was far better than Fitzgerald. I’m ashamed that this a true story tbh.
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But Hemingway’s faux masculinity should never be taken at face value. He’s the seminal figure of the lost generation (one that echoes are own)a sexual dysfunctional with delusions of importance and grandeur. His problems and insecurities are similar to our own generational issues
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As a person he is loathsome and artificial, his adventurism in the Spanish civil war is nauseating. But he is a very precise artifact of the time he lived in, and the ideas in his writing echo the insecurities of our own generation.
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