I received an interesting question at allexperts.com recently. The inquirer asked: "If you had 10 questions that you could ask Ernest Hemingway if you had a personal interview with him what would they be?" Only ten I thought. There are a lot more than ten questions I would like to ask Ernest Hemingway. However, I stuck to the assignment and came up with ten questions.
- Do you regret leaving your first wife Hadley?
- Is there symbolism in your works?
- How do you feel about your private letters being published?
- What do you think of the annual Hemingway look alike contest in Key West, Florida?
- Does Thomasville's Ernest Hemingway collection of furniture truly represent your taste?
- Was F. Scott Fitzgerald a better writer than you?
- Did you really rewrite the ending of A Farewell to Arms 39 times?
- Which of your short stories are you most proud of?
- Do you think you would be successful as a modern day writer?
- Did Margot Macomber intentionally shoot her husband in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"?
If you had the opportunity to interview Ernest Hemingway, what questions would you ask?
Posted on April 02, 2006 | Four comments
1. Why didnt you try writing a true sentence that 2nd of July?
2. Did you believe you could beat Tolstoy in short battles?
3. What do you think is common between you and Faulkner?
4. Why didnt you write anything substantial about China?
2)Did you achieve as a novelist and writer that which you initially set out to accomplish?
3) What would you like the writers of the future to accomplish, in terms of the novel?
4)Is the academic study of literature beneficial to it, or is it entombing it?
5) What country would you like to have written about that you hadn't had a chance to write about?