Its Ultimately This That They Judge You On
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There\\u2019s no question Hemingway was a great writer. He was the voice of a generation\\u2014The Lost Generation. He redefined prose style in the English language. His books have sold millions of copies. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
He wrote beautifully on love and family (A Farewell to Arms). He wrote beautifully on struggle and perseverance (The Old Man and the Sea). He was also a pretty awful husband and father. As one of his sons said, to Hemingway \\u201cfamily life [was] the enemy of accomplishment.\\u201d It was a thing that interfered with his greatness, his craft, his books. \\u201cOn several occasions,\\u201d Patrick Hemingway recounted that Hemingway \\u201csaid being a a good husband, being a good father\\u2026all of [these things were] not recognized by a reviewer when he reviewed his book.\\u201d
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