Analysis of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and A...

Hi, This is not a rewrite request. I fulfilled all of the instructions in the original assignment which were to provide a thesis that answered the prompt and to provide examples that supported the thesis. Had I not fulfilled those instructions, you would not have turned the paper in and received this additional feedback from your instructor. This additional feedback warrants an additional assignment. You should place another order for more pages. Thanks. True Lies One can argue that the veracity of autobiographies, by nature, is extremely deceptive. The vast majority of the facts contained within them are colored, quite naturally, by the perceptions and interpretations of the author. The tendency to take liberty with the truth is often exacerbated when the author of such works has an affinity (or perhaps gift) for the written language, such as is the case with both Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, who produced fairly unconventional autobiographical works entitled A Moveable Feast and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, respectively. The proclivity to glorify ones own actions and deeds in effect to make oneself appear cool is often an irresistible temptation, especially for those writing about people (including themselves) whom posterity admires, such as the lost generation of expatriate American writers living in Paris in the early part of the 20th century. In light of that fact, it is interesting to note that both Hemingway and Stein cr eate an image of their