- Title
- Hemingway s Thrice-Told Tale: A Farewell to Arms and Noncombatant Fantasy
- Author/Creator
- Keith Gandal
- Publication Details
- War Isn’t the Only Hell: A New Reading of World War I American Literature, pp.78-99
- Annotation
- Compares narrative strategies employed by Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway to attract a noncombatant readership composed of veterans who felt shame and resentment over their lack of frontline service. Traces Hemingway s evolving commitment to validating the noncombatants experience in A Very Short Story, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms. Gandal concludes that in his third rewriting of the doomed soldier-nurse love story, Hemingway achieved his greatest affirmation of the noncombatant through his creation of Frederic Henry, a noncombatant hero who proves his measure as a soldier and an officer. Also discusses Dos Passos s Three Soldiers (1921) and Fitzgerald s The Beautiful and the Damned (1922) and The Great Gatsby (1925).
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015132130103691
Book chapter
Hemingway s Thrice-Told Tale: A Farewell to Arms and Noncombatant Fantasy
War Isn’t the Only Hell: A New Reading of World War I American Literature, pp.78-99
2018
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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