When did youfinally realize Hemingway is entry level and patrician

>>9931406
I've never read Hemingway. Why should I?

Old Man and the Sea 2bh. Plebs get tripped up on the simple prose and imagery but fail to think about the complete picture.

The second time I read the sun also rises

>>9931431
similarly, TSaR was my first Hemingway, I did not like it until I got to the bullfighting scene and then I thought, "Alright, perhaps there is something to this..." Then when I reread it about a year later I appreciated the entirety of it vastly.

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My Father told me, before anyone else. He's a clever man, intelligent but not drastically so. Although a lawyer, he doesn't read for pleasure. The exception being that he enjoyed Hemingway. Growing up, once my family had realized that my reading habit would not abate with age, my father gave me an official recommendation to him. I began with A Farewell to Arms. I eventually ended up reading all of his major works as well as about 3/4 of his short stories.

As much as my father, Hemingway taught me what it is to be a man. Later, I read the stoics and made a lot of connections. I knew he was entry level because he's where I got started. I knew he was patrician once I began to realize what patrician was. Being. Being whole, being simply, and being the best one could make of themselves.