Paulina Pfeiffer and Ernest Hemingway

Paulina Pfeiffer was Hemingways second wife after Hadley Richardson, Paulina was the women that Hemingway cheated on Hadley with. Paulina other than Hemingways other wives had a different influence and role in Hemingways writings. Paulina had two uncles Henry and Gus that took care of Paulina and Hemingway financially when they were first married, They owned a house in Key West Florida and had two children. Paulina was a very large role in funding Hemingways writings, she purchased for him a studio where he could work on new material. Hemingway states through their first few years of marriage with Paulina she was "his best editor" due to the fact she would advise most of his pieces. In an article on Hemingway and Paulina the author expresses, "In late 1925 and early 1926, as Hemingway revised the manuscript of The Sun Also Rises, the debut novel that would make him famous, he began to seek feedback from Pauline on the edits. In the earliest days of his career, he had discussed his writings with Hadley, but Pauline could offer more than excited encouragement; she could offer constructive, valuable feedback (Blume). Blue states that she was a very important piece to his puzzle of good stories or novels, during his marriage with Pauline he had released eight works. While researching information about Paulina, there is an interesting fact about her in Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" the main character Catherine is mostly connected to Hemingway's first love Agnus. However, when Paulina and Hemingway were having their first child it was an extremely painful birth and it was very hard for Paulina, which is why Hemingway had created Catherines death during birth after witnessing what his wife at the time had been going through with their first born. Hemingway also had an affair on with a lady named Martha Gellhorn, who later becomes Hemingways third wife. Hemingway in his later life realized that it was his mistake cheating on his first wife with Paulina, and states that she "murdered" his marriage with her in "A Moveable Feast".

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