Ernest Hemingway is a very interesting author. His life and work can be studied from multiple angles and many facets of them are interesting. I will investigate and research three main aspects of Hemingway: his writing style and how it was influenced by his beliefs, his views on gender and how they manifest themselves in his writings, and his views on death and how it is portrayed in his work. I will analyze these aspects of Hemingway with respect to his life, asking myself questions relating his personal experiences to topics that show up in what he writes. For example, I might consider the question: How did Hemingway’s multiple marriages and divorces affect how he wrote about married females? An interesting place to start when answering this question might be to examine the character Jig in his story “Hills Like While Elephants,” reading such articles from the Literature Resource Center from Gale as “’Hills Like White Elephants’: the jilting of Jig” by Nilofer Hashmi, which explores the possibility that Jig will agree to have an abortion but her lover will abandon her after it is over anyway. Other relevant criticism comes from Diane Andrews Henningfeld, which related “Hills” to other Hemingway stories. In addition to referencing “Hills,” I could compare Hemingway’s treatment of Jig to his treatment of female characters in other stories such as the female Indian in “Indian Camp,” Nick’s mother in “Nick Adams” stories, Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms, or Santiago’s wife in The Old Man and the Sea. Another question I might pose: How does Hemingway’s characteristic dialogue reveal his idea on gender? For this I could read Robert Paul Lamb’s critical essay “Hemingway and the Creation of Twentieth-Century Dialogue” and look at the parts referring to gender. Using these ideas and criticism as a starting point, I will focus my research on a more specific topic and formulate my own ideas on Hemingway with respect to a more narrow question.