Unquestionably, Ernest Hemingway was anti-Semitic. Studded throughout his letters are nasty remarks about Jews. read more
This makes people believe that Hemingway may have been antisemitic. One of the major challenges an author faces when portraying people is to make them authentic. Because villains act villianous, does not make the writer villianous. read more
Hemingway had heard a story about a frozen carcass of a leopard on Kilimanjaro and had used it as an epigraph to his story. It is his symbol, not his reader's: we can assign a variety of meanings to it, but they do not add to the richness of the story; at best, they can please us by seeming to confirm what we feel Harry's failure and dreams to mean. read more
Unquestionably, Ernest Hemingway was anti-Semitic. Studded throughout his letters are nasty remarks about Jews. But Hemingway felt his prejudice had a place in his fiction as well, most notably in “The Sun Also Rises,” his classic 1925 novel about a group of Paris expatriates at the bullfights in Pamplona. read more