Hemingway's "Boy Girl" Twinhood

Ernest Hemingway's childhood was very gender-bendy. His mother taught her son to play the cello, despite refusing him to learn it later in life. He had tea parties and there would be air guns at Wolloon Lake where he spent summers with his sister Marcelyn. As late as their freshman year in high school, Ernest was a whole head shorter than Marcelyn; this is a recurring theme on art of darkness.