Sorry, but I believe pissant is right. Two main sorts of people tend to hate Hemingway: (1) women, and (2) artsy-fartsy limp-wristed types who need to destroy the Hemingway myth in order to promote their own introspective, verbose garbage.
"Two main sorts of people tend to hate Hemingway: (1) women, and (2) artsy-fartsy limp-wristed types who need to destroy the Hemingway myth in order to promote their own introspective, verbose garbage."
LOL. Some of those who knew him best suspected Hemingway was an "artsy-fartsy limp-wristed type" who just went out of his way (perhaps too far) to hide it. (Cf Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Max Eastman, McAlmon his first publisher -- for starters.)
But you forgot another group who hated Hemingway: those who knew him.
Including all of his editors and publishers (Eastman, McAlmon), and his erstwhile "friends," and those who felt he lifted his style and even some of his material from them (Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson)...
For the record I don't hate Hemingway at all. In fact, I even helped to write and produce an international mini-series on him. I just know about him.