Why does Hemingway associate Michigan with masculinity?

Ernest Hemingway: A Man’s Man

Hemingway the Hunter

Hemingway the Boxer

Hemingway the Ladies’ Man

Hemingway the Scary Man

Hemingway was one Macho DudeBut he held a deep secret.Until the age of 6, he was raised as a girl,

not as a boy.See, his mother desperately wanted to

have twin girls, so he dressed Hemingway as a girl to match his older sister.

His mother called him “Ernestine.”She even held his sister back in school so

they could appear as twins!

Ernestine

Ernestine

Ernestine

Where could he be masculine?MichiganDuring the summer, Ernest Hemingway’s

dad would bring him to Michigan.There, he could dress and act as a boy.One could say he became overly masculine

in Michigan, to compensate for being dressed as a girl, and this is evident in the story “Up in Michigan.”