Kat's exact quote in the film was in response to a fellow classmate calling Hemingway a romantic:
Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who
squandered half his life...hanging around Picasso trying to nail his
leftovers.
Let's break down Kat's accusations of Heming...
@Randal'Thor And anytime that I bring up Hemingway, nobody is really interested. I just don't know a lot of other authors that well. I know a little bit about Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, but it just doesn't appear that they are the types of authors that people want to discuss in there. I tried bringing up Philippa Gregory once and just got crickets ;). It's not a big deal, it's just that I don't have anything else to contribute to chat over there.
Oh, God. I am by far no expert at all in literature. I know Hemingway pretty well and that's about it. I am but a mere peon when it comes to those others ;)
@AnkitSharma Yeah, and I even edited my answer because someone said that I had an opinion based statement on it without anything to back it up, which I thought that my first link did back up him being a misogynist. But, I posted one of many letters of Hemingway proving to be a total misogynist to satisfy that person.
@Randal'Thor Yay! I'm going to answer your other For whom the bell tolls question. The answer that you have is ok, but I believe that there are letts that Hemingway wrote to Hotchner on who Robert Jordan was actually based on. Also, even though Hemingway denied that he was based on himself, there are still similarities between the two.
@Randal'Thor OMG! Great question! Actually, Hemingway's time covering the Spanish civil war was met with controversy, like many things in his life. I have lots of quotes and references from that time in Hemingway's life! I will have to wait and put an answer together tonight when I get to work. The same question can be asked for A Farewell to Arms and many more of his books. The Old man and the sea is based on a real person, for instance.
@HDE226868 I honestly didn't read it until college. It is my favorite book. It made me a Hemingway fan. I love how he puts you in 1920's Paris. I adore the way that he describes eating oysters. You can literally taste them with him. It's great!
@Randal'Thor Hehehe! You figured it out! Dammit! Well, in all seriousness, I am a huge Hemingway fan and I do enjoy some Shakespeare and I am a fan of certain authors and literature. I don't like Harry Potter and stuff. I hope that stuff stays on sci-fi ;)
@b_jonas Yeah, but there are times when the spouse doesn't have the author's interest in mind. Hemingway's widow published "A Moveable Feast" posthumously and edited out important information that should have been included. Hemingway was professing his love for his first wife in the work and she took it out, so, I don't trust spouses sometimes.
@NapoleonWilson Because, I don't know that much about the World Wars, especially the first one. I read a Hemingway book in High school and a few movie references. That's it. We had WW2 stuffed down our throats. Nobody really cared about the first one. So, that's what I meant.
Kat's exact quote in the film was in response to a fellow classmate calling Hemingway a romantic:
Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who
squandered half his life...hanging around Picasso trying to nail his
leftovers.
Let's break down Kat's accusations of Heming...