- Title
- The Need for a Shave: Beards in Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction
- Author/Creator
- Peter Ferry
- Publication Details
- Beards and Masculinity in American Literature, pp.66-108
- Annotation
- Challenges reading Hemingway's Papa beard as a symbol of the author's ultra-masculinity through an examination of the role of facial hair in three of Hemingway's best-known novels, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ferry argues that Hemingway's complex narratives of beard posing and masculine performance belie easy associations between beards and masculinity, writing that Hemingway's most famous male protagonists, Jake Barnes, Frederic Henry, and Robert Jordan, "contribute to three particular beard narratives: questioning the pretension of the beard, recognizing and rejecting the symbolic power of the act of beard wearing, and repeatedly voicing the need for a shave."
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015130929003691
Book chapter
The Need for a Shave: Beards in Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction
Beards and Masculinity in American Literature, pp.66-108
2020
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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