/lit/ - Literature

This book was incredibly sexist, racist and anti-Semitic.

>>15041646

I still have no idea how this book got its title.

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So was it his balls or dick that got blown off?

My favourite author is Hemingway and I want to write like him, but my life isn't comparable. Should I just make it up?

It's not the fact that my life is boring:
>I spent the first 8 years of my life in West Africa living in the bush
>I then grew up in an abusive household in the UK and went travelling homeless around Europe for 2 years
>I had a baby with a woman and fell in love with somebody else

It's more the fact that I don't think people care about those things, and I don't have the fishing/bullfighting/Parisian subplots to back it up.

>Interests are video games & reading (duh)
>Never step outside of the comfort zone any more
>Don't have any ambitions besides writing
>Happily married with child and pretty much think my life is completed

I guess the topic of the thread is coming up with plots that are relevant to your life but also archetypal/literary

Hemingway's Brett wasn't a tragic, misguided figure as I feel he intended her to be.

Instead, she became the role model for all modern women.

Are there any other literary figures that were intended to portray negative traits, but instead became paragons of social empowerment and personal freedom?

What did the bull fighting represent?

when does this get good?