587. A Jerk With A Halo - 2
Someone mentioned in an email his affinity with Ernest Hemingway. It was already years ago, since I had read a few of his books. Only having a vague idea about enjoying the books but disliking his machismo, I read his Wikipedia biography and discovered, that he was another jerk with a halo.
According to this biography, Hemingway has ruthlessly repeated a cruel pattern with three of his wives. First he cheated on them, then dumped and replaced them with the accomplice of the cheating. This makes him a jerk with a halo as defined in entry 586.
But he was not only a jerk with a halo put upon him by many of his readers, he also haloed himself:
Someone mentioned in an email his affinity with Ernest Hemingway. It was already years ago, since I had read a few of his books. Only having a vague idea about enjoying the books but disliking his machismo, I read his Wikipedia biography and discovered, that he was another jerk with a halo.
According to this biography, Hemingway has ruthlessly repeated a cruel pattern with three of his wives. First he cheated on them, then dumped and replaced them with the accomplice of the cheating. This makes him a jerk with a halo as defined in entry 586.
But he was not only a jerk with a halo put upon him by many of his readers, he also haloed himself:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/dowd-a-farewell-to-macho.html
"Hemingway needed a new wife for every big book. And even when he was cheating on a wife with her friend, he painted himself as a victim of predatory and trusting women.
Writing in “A Moveable Feast” about dumping his older first wife, Hadley, for his older second wife, Pauline, he whinged that “the oldest trick” is “that an unmarried young woman becomes the temporary best friend of another young woman who is married, goes to live with the husband and wife and then unknowingly, innocently and unrelentingly sets out to marry the husband.”
“He’d acted like a boor and a bully and an overly competitive jerk,” "
