Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway authored many stories and books including the Old Man and the Sea and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. In The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hemingway uses the idea of 'stream of consciousness' to tell a story about him and his lover. William Faulkner was also a famous writer who was known for using the 'stream of consciousness' in his writing a lot. So the story that Hemingway writes is about a man and a woman (the man's lover) that he brings with him on a trip up into the mountains of Kilimanjaro to spend time alone together. This woman was not his wife but depicts the realness of the relationship in the dialog. This story is autobiographical of Ernest Hemingway and illustrates the pain he feels for leaving his first wife for the second one (Pauline, the woman who he has an affair with while with his first wife and the best friend of his first wife). In fact, many of Hemingway's stories are about relationships between men and women. Each time he wrote a new story, Hemingway had to 'reinvent' himself in order to keep his creative juices flowing of new characters and issues to write about. So when he created this new persona often times he needed a new wife to fit his new person so that he would have a new muse to work with and new ideas. Hemingway ended up marrying four different women throughout his life.