Hi,

I am curious to know what women who have read Ernest Hemingways books think of his style, writing, etc. as his books are very masculine oriented and typically on the topics of men and their struggles. I recently started reading The Old Man And The Sea and as I was reading it, the thought occurred to me that I really couldn’t imagine a woman relating to what was being said on the page.

So I’m curious, female readers who have read his books…do you relate to much of what its saying? What do you think of his books?

Sorry if this sounds naive/obtuse, that is not my intention.

  • darkest_irish_lass@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I loved A Farewell to Arms, and I think it was Hemingway’s extrenely spare writing style that sold it. The book just ends in this devastating way, and you get this awful realization that there has never been a promise of a happy ending.

    I’ve read other Hemingway, and I see them as wonderful examples of how an author can spin an engrossing story with very little description or wasted subtext. The characters have drives and past experiences that are slowly revealed in how they interact with the world (The Killers). Despite only knowing them briefly, we end up caring for them very much, but are powerless to help or hinder them.

    As a woman, I love these stories as a window into a very masculine world that I would never be able to access.