Drinking in the Midwest

Ernest Hemingway's tolerance for heavy drinking is legendary. He discovered it in his early teens, and then exploited it to construct his narcissistic image of a redoubtable macho. Nick Adams, his alter ego and younger self, alternatively found in "The Three-Day Blow," that drinking is quite helpful when he needs to get away. At this stage and age, hard liquor could just be an efficient self-treatment. Ernest Hemingway; The Three-Day Blow; drinking whiskey; tolerance; all male friendship; self-treatment