| Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in 1921 and had a son named Bumby in 1923. Since he had come to Paris, he enjoyed himself in skiing, fishing, and watching bullfights, attaining experiences and inspirations from such activities in the Europe. The responsibility of child-rearing made Hadley become a less adventurous companion than she had once been. A big mistake that Hemingway could not forgive about Hadley was that she lost the briefcase containing all the manuscripts Hemingway had worked on through 1921 and 1922. Hemingway divorced Hadley and in 1926 remarried with Pauline Pfeiffer, who followed Hemingway to different places such as Montana, Idaho, Cuba, Africa, Spain, Italy, and various other points around the world. The year 1928 was an extremely tough year for Hemingway, in which Pauline suffered a traumatic cesarean section in giving birth to their son, Patrick, and in December, Hemingway’s father who suffered from diabetes and depression, committed suicide with a revolver and left him an emotional scar. In 1940, Hemingway divorced Pauline and married Martha Gellhorn, a vibrant and determined reporter with whom he had covered battles in Spain. Their marriage did not last long either, because Martha refused to subordinate her career to his own, insisting on continuing to travel and write when he wanted her attention on him. Although during the early part of the World War II, Hemingway struggled to control his alcoholism and the more frequent bouts of depression that began to haunt him, by 1944 Hemingway had returned to his old form, helped along by his adventures as a war correspondent and by his new romance with another lady journalist, Mary Walsh, his fourth and last wife. |