God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

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Suzanne del Gizzo

Reading Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing: Glossary and Commentary, pp.70-82

2021

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Title: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Author/Creator: Suzanne del Gizzo
Publication Details: Reading Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing: Glossary and Commentary, pp.70-82
Annotation: Annotates and comments, often line by line, on familiar and obscure details and allusions to the people, places, things, events, and other references found in the story. Opens with a discussion of the story's publication history, critical reception, and relationship to other stories both in and outside the collection before moving into an explication beginning with the title and closing with the story's final lines on Doctor Wilcox's failure to recognize his part in the boy's tragedy. Topics covered include Hemingway's comparison of Kansas City with Constantinople, thematic treatment of misreading and Jewishness, and lesson on empathy.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015136274403691