Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was raised by his parents Clarence and Grace Hemingway in the suburbs of Chicago. While attending high school, Hemingway helped maintain the school newspaper. After graduation, he began his writing career working for the Kansas City Star at the young age of seventeen. Hemingway once said, “In the Star you had to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is very useful to anyone.” Hemingway's time at the Star certainly aided his prose writing style. (Trout, 5)During World War I, Hemingway went abroad to work as an ambulance driver. After briefly aiding the Italian army, he was wounded and sent to Milan for his injuries. While convalescing, Hemingway met nurse Agnes von Kurowsky, to whom he soon proposed. However, he left the wounded soldier for another man, leaving the war-torn soldier alone. The heartbroken writer found inspiration in this event and later wrote his famous works “A Very Short Story” and A Farewell to Arms. While still recovering from his injuries, Hemingway returned to the United States and met the woman who would become his first wife, Hadley Richardson. The married couple 2 moved to Paris, where Hemingway found work as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. Hemingway continued his work by publishing many of his most recognizable works, such as For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms. His book The Old Man and the Sea earned Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. However, as his years passed, his physical and mental well-being began to decline. On July 2, 1961, he finally committed suicide in his home. De... half of the paper... saw no meaning in life and slipped into extreme depression. The question: "Why should I car?" it was something that entered his mind and slowly destroyed him. Instead of forcing himself to do something with his life, he let the belief that everything was vanity eat away at his sanity until he was just a lifeless corpse, both physically and mentally (Elliot). Hemingway and Melville challenged the idea of ​​belief and disbelief in different yet similar ways. Hemingway demonstrated in “The Soldier's Home” that having different beliefs can hurt those around you. Melville's short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” showed that unbelief in life leads to losing one's life. Both authors show how beliefs can influence our daily lives and that of others more than we might think. They demonstrate that having the right beliefs, or lack thereof, increases or destroys our very will to live (Furlani).