- Title
- Man Cannot Live by Dry Flies Alone: Fly Rods, Grasshoppers, and an Adaptive Catholicity in Hemingway s "Big Two-Hearted River"
- Author/Creator
- David N. Cremean
- Publication Details
- Hemingway and the Natural World, pp.31-44
- Annotation
- Reading through a Catholic lens, Cremean argues for the ultimate unity between the physical and the spiritual within Hemingway s two-part short story. Draws on Jake Barnes and the sacred code of fly fishing in The Sun Also Rises to illustrate Nick Adams s crossroads between youth and manhood as well as his spiritual impoverishment. Further argues that a collective reading of Big Two-Hearted River with Now I Lay Me and A Way You ll Never Be shows Nick s need for a fishing ritual that will help him regain his physical, mental, emotional, moral, and spiritual equilibrium.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015130975103691
Book chapter
Man Cannot Live by Dry Flies Alone: Fly Rods, Grasshoppers, and an Adaptive Catholicity in Hemingway s "Big Two-Hearted River"
Hemingway and the Natural World, pp.31-44
1999
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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