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rtues as courage and endurance. He had a whole happy childhood though he did run away from home twice. In the school, he was also an outstanding student. Therefore, Hemingway’s early childhood experience and his natural temper made him becomes a perfectionist little by little. After leaving school, he joined in the army as a war reporter, like other young people lived in that period, he was disillusioned by the senseless slaughter of the First World War. In the war, Hemingway got short period praise because he saved a solider, during those days he was seemed as a hero by people, even the honor disappeared soon, his code man characteristic lasted. Hemingway paid all his life to write, create and remain his code man spirit to memory the honor that he had ever had, this represented whatever in his life or his works. Experienced so many adventures, his life were filled with depression and physical sickness, after got the Nobel Prize which Hemingway always pursuited, and underwent shock treatment for depression, Hemingway ended his life with his loved shotgun that his father ever used to committed suicide. Hemingway pursuited perfectionism in all of his life, his perfectionism represents not only in his life, but also in his works. All of his works refer to war and tension, all his life full with adventures which represented his notion of a perfect life. Hemingway always wanted to finish his hero role completely, which is defined in other people’s eyes as a hero should be. Because his pursuit of everything’s perfection, he always had high expectation, if the things didn’t process according to his plan, he would lose his mind. The old year’s sickness made Hemingway could not realize his perfect dreams any more; he was tortured by sickness day by day which was created by early war experiences and kinds of adventures. Hemingway’s contradictory mind is another expression of his perfectionism. He had ever joined the Communist Party, but he was also a member of Catholic Church; he had four wives but he divorced finally; people always thought he was a play boy, at least a man could not concentrate on love, but he admitted to the public that “he loved all his wives and sons”; The day when Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in 1949, Hemingway was quoted as these saying, “no son of bitch who ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards”, but when he got Nobel Prize in 1954, he accepted that prize happily. If Hemingway is not a perfectionist, he could live happily than any one else. Nevertheless, everyone has their own living way, he chose to live in a perfectionism way. 3. Sum up Both Hemingway and the old man are representation of perfectionism. Indeed, in the process of pursuiting perfection, they have got the most valuable things in life, because their pursuing the perfect things made their life full of energy and motivation. However, life is not always perfect. In our life, pursuing perfection is approved but we must recognize the truth that life is imperfect, no one is perfect. It is the rule of nature. Hemingway and the old man pursuit their perfect outsized dreams, the results of their pursuits are not good. Take Hemingway and the old man for example, the results of their perfectionism are Hemingway felt depressive for the whole world and chose committed suicide; while the old man, his pursuit disappeared in several seconds, he feels sad because he realizes he is still a loser. C. Dealing with Perfectionism The most i