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Article: Papa y el tirador: biographical parallels in Hemingway's "I guess everything reminds you of something".(Ernest Hemingway)
- Article from:
- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Hemingway's' relationship with his youngest son, Gregory, became increasingly acrimonious in the years following Pauline Hemingway's tragic death in 1951. Father and son blamed one another for her demise, and it does not appear that they ever reconciled. Around 1955, Hemingway wrote a biographically-based short story called "I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something;' possibly as a means to come to terms with what had happened. When considered alongside the biographical events that inspired it, "I Guess" provides insight into the complex emotions that fueled Ernest and Gregory's estrangement.
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WHILE VISITING CUBA IN 1952, Gregory Hemingway ...