The Reflection of Women in Two Great American Writer’s Creative Works: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

Abstract

The literary of heritages of two great writers in 20th century, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, include several topics that are derived from experiences that they had with women in their life .The first major women who influenced Fitzgerald and Hemingway’s lives and works were their mother. About Fitzgerald, besides his mother, his wife Zelda and two other women, Ginevra King and Sheilah Graham, played a major role in his life and deeply influenced his fiction as sources of inspiration. Agnes Von Kurowsky as Hemingway’s nurse, his four wives, Jane Mason, and Adriana Ivancich were the women who really had affected his life and creative works besides his mother as sources of inspiration. The other women who seriously influenced both of them, was Gertrude Stein.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s2p179