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HEMINGWAY'S LOVE LIFE - Hemingway's View of Love

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 * Agnes von Kurowsky** (vs. Catherine)
 * Nurse in the hospital in Milan where Hemingway was staying after hit by the explosion of a trench mortar
 * "sympathetic and lovely...attractive" (S. Villard?)
 * "she didn't mind the night duty that the others were inclined to shun" (S. Villard)
 * "she was blessed with a sense of humor that verged on the mischievous" (Villard)
 * Hemingway was 19 while in the hospital
 * "Ernest had been very serious about wanting to marry her, no doubt about that; he had done his best to persuade her. She, on the other hand, had 'liked' him without being 'in love' with him; she had found him 'interesting' but he was 'impulsive, hasty, not to say impetuous.' 'He didn't really know what he wanted.' He 'hadn't thought out anything clearly.' In short, he was just too young and immature for a girl seven years older" (Villard)
 * "they had had what she chose to call a 'flirtation', but the relationship, she said firmly, had never gone beyond that." (Villard)
 * "Agnes thoroughly resented being taken for 'the alter ego of the complaisant Catherine Barkley'" (Villard)
 * "he invented the myth years later--built out of his frustration in love." (Villard) myth=her's and Hemingway's relationship portrayed in the book, not true!
 * "moments for a 'flirtation' certainly were there, after hours...when other patients were asleep and Aggie could pay more visits to Ernie's room than were strictly necessary. By her own admission, she did not mind night duty" (Villard)
 * She thought Hemingway was self-centered
 * "there is no question in my mind that Agnes was strongly drawn to Hemingway, as her numerous extant letters attest, and that he thought, in the inexperience of youth, he was going to marry her after the war." (Villard)
 * "'I did not intend a happy ending.' To an impressionable young man, who had never loved before, the shock of being rejected by the girl he believed was his must have been exceptionally severe and may well have conditioned his future attitude toward women." (Villard)
 * "In no other work did Hemingway describe his heroine in terms of such passionate tenderness; so many of his women appear tough or cynical in comparison" (Villard)
 * "Ernie had in his possession three of her letters until the day of his death showed that he had not forgotten." (Villard)
 * "He was talking last night of what it might be if he was 26-28. In some ways--at some times--I wish very much that he was. He is adorable & we are very congenial in every way. I'm getting so confused in my heart & mind I don't know how I'll end up." (Agnes)
 * "Mac found one of my hairpins under Hemingway's pillow, & she & Mr. Lewis will never let me forget it now." (Agnes)
 * "They left this P.M.--at 6. Ernie came downstairs to say goodbye to me, & Miss De Long was close at hand, so it was rather formal until she went off & then I slipped into the elevator with him & we had a more real farewell." (Agnes)
 * "My Kid came back tonight, & I feel so different. It seemed wonderful to be together again."
 * "Then, maybe tonight we'll try & see who has the nicest--wildest--most impossible dream-plan for the Old Future we're going to jazz up together." (Letter from Agnes to Hemingway)
 * "Your poco idiot--(but, yet--yours--so you can't kick.) Von--(otherwise know as Ag--Aggie--Agony--Artless--Curiosity--Vonny--Agnes--Kid--Mrs. Kid and a few others.)" (Letter from Agnes to Hemingway)
 * "Of course, you are 'Why Girls Leave Home,' 'The Light of my Existence,' 'My Dearest & Best,'...'More Precious Than Gold in War Times,' 'My hero,'" (Letter from Agnes to Hemingway)
 * "Gosh--if you were only here, I'd dash in & make you up about now, & you'd smile at me & hold out your brawny arms." (Letter from Agnes to Hemingway)

Catherine doesn't have a religion, but love is kind of her religion; she is a modern (doesn't follow traditions, especially religious traditions) and is independent. When Henry first realizes he's fallen in love with her, he only talks about how beautiful she is.

Curley, Dorothy N., Maurice Kramer, and Elaine F. Kramer, comps. //A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature//. Vol. 2. New York: Frederick Ungar Co, 1960. Print. G-O.
 * "From the beginning the thing that stirred him most was violence, and the emotions of which he wrote about were those stimulated by pain and killing...and love conceived as something in itself very akin to violence." (W.M. Frohock)
 * "he has an elementary sense of chivalry--respect for women, pity for the weak, love of honor--which keeps breaking in." (Evelyn Waugh)
 * The only thing they had in common was a __dislike of restraint__...Young men who enjoyed the idea of free love and constant drinking could find their type-heroes in Hemingway." (John Atkins)
 * "And when he was unable to write or was between books, he still did what //he could,// which was to live life to the full and then...make his private experience public, so that everybody else could also have a wonderful time." (Lillian Ross)
 * "We will never know just what Nick or Hemingway was suffering from...//A Moveable Feast// suggests something besides: a broken heart. The heroine--Hemingway's only live and persuasive heroine--of //A Moveable Feast// is the first Mrs. Hemingway. The book is in praise of her and of what he lost when he let her go, since losing her he gave up not only her love and his but his youth and his friends and Paris, everything that encouraged him to write." (Marvin Mudrick)