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Hemingway influenced [[American]] literature<ref>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway/stories/nagel/</ref>. He helped popularize a style of writing that featured plain language, short sentences, and clean, sparse prose. His writing frequently focused on American expatriates living in [[Europe]] or [[Africa]]. Leading characters are often very masculine, somewhat alcoholic, and suffering from mental scars, but they are always in control of themselves. These characters are believed to be based on Hemingway himself.
Hemingway influenced [[American]] literature<ref>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway/stories/nagel/</ref>. He helped popularize a style of writing that featured plain language, short sentences, and clean, sparse prose. His writing frequently focused on American expatriates living in [[Europe]] or [[Africa]]. Leading characters are often very masculine, somewhat alcoholic, and suffering from mental scars, but they are always in control of themselves. These characters are believed to be based on Hemingway himself.
==Fascination with Androgyny==
Hemingway evidenced throughout his work a keen fascination with [[androgyny]] and associated concepts. Despite his apparent wholesale dedication to machismo, critics have identified an undercurrent of self-awareness of an appearance of [[homosexuality]] in more intimate moments in such works as ''The Sun Also Rises''. It becomes even more evident when examining some of his unpublished works, such as ''The Garden of Eden'', wherein the protagonist's wife has their hair cut identically and experiments in the bedroom in a dominating manner. [[Queer theory|Queer Theorists]] have examined this trend of fascination in detail, and much speculation has been made about its origin. One prominent theory traces it back to his childhood, when his mother would dress him as a girl and pretend he was his older sister's twin - a practice which continued until he was seven or eight.
==References==
==References==