The Curse of the Hemingways Essay -- Exploratory Essays Research Paper

The Curse of the HemingwaysCan someone be predisposed to be suicidal? That is the question that plagues some(prenominal) Hemingway scholars, and indeed it seems that it exists in the Hemingway lineage. Ernest Hemingways family tree is dotted with suicides and sudden tragic deaths, too many occurrences for one to merely disregard such tragedies as coincidence. around believe that there exists the so- called curse of the Hemingways, a way to explain the many deaths within the Hemingway family due to drug overdose or self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Ernests typesetters case is the most well known, but suicide too struck his father, sister, brother, son, and granddaughter. The suicides among Ernests parents and siblings family are numerous. Clarence Hemingway, Ernests father, killed himself in 1928. Clarence was fervently religious, providing much of Ernests moral education in his younger years. However, Clarence battled depression and diabetes, and in the end shot himself in the head on December 6, 1928. Ernests closest younger sister, Ursula, suffered from cancer and bouts of depression, and killed herself in a drug overdose on October 30, 1966. Ernests brother Leicester was the youngest in the family, the only other male after Clarences sudden death. He was a generator like Ernest, but depression and diabetes gripped him and Leicester shot himself on September 15, 1982, after finding out he needed to amputate his legs. The rest of Ernest Hemingways family also has had a share of sudden deaths and suicides. Ernests second wife, Pauline Pffeifer Hemingway, died suddenly of abdominal pain and internal bleeding. He had lived with her for 13 years and had two children together, Gregory and Patrick. Gregory Hemingway lived a tragic, wretch... ...9/hemingway/stories/biography/index.html - I took from this site the date and causes of death for Leicester, Ursula, and Pauline Hemingway. http//www.timelesshemingway.com/familytree.shtml This site contained the family t ree of the Hemingways. http//www.cvc3.org/modelcourses/mrogoff/Macomber.htmlSUICIDE%20IN%20THE%20HEMINGWAY%20FAMILY This site listed the members of the Hemingway family that committed suicide. http//www.advocate.com/html/stories/851/851_hemingway.asp -This site had information concerning Gregory Hemingways life and death. http//www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9608/20/hemingway.suicide/ This site had information on Margaux Hemingway. http//www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/Aficionado/people/fa899.html This site contained the most information on Ernest of any other website, where I gleaned the history of his accidents and his alcoholism.