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VOICE ONE:
I'M Shirley Griffith
VOICE TWO:
AND I'M Doug Johnson with people in America, a program about people who are important in the history of the United States. Today we present the second part of the story of Ernest Hemingway's life and writings.
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voice one:
At twenty-five, Hemingway was living in Paris. He was a famous writer. But the end of his first marriage made him want to leave the place where he had first become famous
Years later he said, "the city was never to be the same again. When I returned to it, I found it had changed as I had changed. Paris was never the same as when I was poor and very happy."
voice two:
Hemingway and his new wife returned to the United States in nineteen-twenty-eight. They settled in Key West, an island with a fishing port near the southern coast of Florida.
Before leaving Paris, Hemingway sent a collection of his stories to New York to be published. The book of stories, called "men without women," was published soon after Hemingway arrived in Key west.
One of the stories was called "the killers." in it, Hemingway used a discussion between two men to create a feeling of tension and coming violence. This was a new method of telling a story:
storyteller:
Nick opened the door and went into the room. Ole Andreson was lying on the bed with all his clothes on. He had been a heavyweight Prizefighter and he was too long for the bed. He lay with his head on two Pillows. He did not look at nick.
"What was it?" he asked.
"I was up at Henry's," nick said, "and two fellows came in and tied me up and the cook, and they said they were going to kill you."
It sounded silly when he said it. Ole Andreson said nothing.
"They put us out in the kitchen," nick went on. "They were going to shoot you when you came in to supper."
Ole Andreson looked at the wall and did not say anything. "George thought i ought to come and tell you about it."
"There isn't anything i can do about it," ole Andreson said.
Voice one:
Any new book by Hemingway was an important event for readers. But stories like "the killers" shocked many people. Some thought there was too much violence in his stories. Others said he only wrote about Gunmen, Soldiers, Fighters, and Drinkers.
This kind of criticism made Hemingway angry. He felt that writers should not be judged by those who could not write a story.
