- Title
- Allusions to The Merchant of Venice and the New Testament in "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen": Hemingway s Anti-Semitism Reconsidered
- Author/Creator
- Horst H. Kruse
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.25(2), pp.61-75
- Annotation
- Claims the difficulties of the short story are overcome by understanding Hemingway s use of allusion and manipulation of facts to satirize the American Midwest and its puritanical values. Kruse interprets Jewish Fischer as a Christ figure and Christian Wilcox as a representative of organized religion, noting inverted parallels between the story and The Merchant of Venice. Reads Hemingway s portrait of a Jewish doctor as the story s moral center as atonement for his former anti-Semitism.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015131967003691
Journal article
Allusions to The Merchant of Venice and the New Testament in "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen": Hemingway s Anti-Semitism Reconsidered
Hemingway Review, Vol.25(2), pp.61-75
04/01/2006
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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