How Did Ernest Hemingway Contribute To Adulthood

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois in an affluent suburb located in Chicago. He was the second born of six children to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway. Ernest's father Clarence, was a local physician in Oak Park and Grace, his mother, an aspiring opera singer. Contradictory to her liberal profession, Grace Hemingway was also a very devout Christian, who raised her children in a very strict Christian household. After Hemingway was born, his mother developed an odd obsession to dress him and his sister as twins. Ernest wore dresses and wasn't allowed to cut his hair until the young age of six, which led to him to develop psychological issues into adulthood. He had also developed a great

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