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It may have been the combination of the brutal physical pain that Hemingway had been enduring and what he saw as the brutal financial pain he had, martyrlike, inflicted on himself after the death of his father—whatever the reasons, Hemingway, in 1931 and 1932, was an irascible man, even in his correspondence with the long-beloved Max Perkins. The weight of having to provide for his own pleasure, his own family, and that of Grace Hall Hemingway and the two youngest children, Carol and Leicester, kept Hemingway off-balance.
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- 1.
Baker, Ernest Hemingway, 200. Hemingway wrote to Perkins (November 20, 1929) that he was trying to support “9 dependents,” but the federal government allowed him only two for income tax purposes (The Only Thing That Counts, 129).
- 2.
Bernice Kert, Hemingway Women, 230.
- 3.
Madelaine Hemingway Miller, Ernie, 125.
- 4.
Ibid., 127.
- 5.
Hadley to Hemingway, January 26, 1930, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 6.
Michael Reynolds, Chronology of Hemingway’s Life, 63.
- 7.
Hemingway to Perkins, April 27, 1931, The Only Thing That Counts, 157.
- 8.
Ibid., April 4, 1932, The Only Thing That Counts, 162.
- 9.
Ibid., February (early) 1933, The Only Thing That Counts, 180.
- 10.
Perkins to Hemingway, December 10, 1929, The Only Thing That Counts, 134.
- 11.
Thomas Hermann, “Quite a Little About Painters,” 43.
- 12.
Ibid., 44, 42, 43; Hermann noted that Gris’s Guitar Player was always hanging in Hemingway’s bedroom, no matter where they lived.
- 13.
See Marilyn Elkins’ “The Fashion of Machismo” in Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway, 102–03.
- 14.
Kert, “Jane Mason and Ernest Hemingway,” Hemingway Review 21 (2002), 111–14. Unlike her extremely wealthy husband, Jane Mason had not been raised with a fortune. Born Jane Welsh in Tuxedo Park, New York June 24, 1909, she took the name of Kendall when her mother, a beautiful southerner, divorced Welsh to marry the millionaire Kendall. At eighteen, Jane married Mason and despite some talent for sculpting and painting, spent her time entertaining, gambling, and shopping. The Masons were soon to adopt two small boys, but the staff would care for them much of the time.
- 15.
Quoted in Kert, ibid., 112–13.
- 16.
Hadley to Hemingway, May 16, 1931, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 17.
Ibid., June 15, 1931, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 18.
Reynolds, Chronology of Hemingway’s Life, 64.
- 19.
Kert, The Hemingway Women, 248.
- 20.
Ibid., 242. Alane Salierno Mason (“To Love and Love Not,” 111) suggests that the writing might be that of Carol Hemingway.
- 21.
Kert, The Hemingway Women, 233, 243.
- 22.
Ibid., 227.
- 23.
Baker, Ernest Hemingway, 228.
- 24.
Patrick Hemingway, comments at the January, 1984, Key West Literary conference on Hemingway.
- 25.
Leicester Hemingway, My Brother, Ernest Hemingway, 112.
- 26.
Ben Stoltzfus, Lacan & Literature, 1996, 14–15.
- 27.
Ibid., 15.
- 28.
Ibid., 100–01.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). Hemingway as the Man in Charge. In: Ernest Hemingway. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86255-8_10
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