’Have Sure Tried’: Hemingway’s Unfaltering Career

Journal article

David Wyatt

American Literary History, Vol.35(4), pp.1843-1862

01/04/2022

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Title: ’Have Sure Tried’: Hemingway’s Unfaltering Career
Author/Creator: David Wyatt
Publication Details: American Literary History, Vol.35(4), pp.1843-1862
Annotation: Refuting commonly held opinion that Hemingway’s writing career declined after World War II, Wyatt argues for recognition of the author’s posthumous output as an impressive extended mediation on what it means to be a “good man” and how he measured up. Wyatt posits that Hemingway’s contemplation, begun in Green Hills of Africa, intensifies in A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, and True at First Light. He writes: “The confessions made and the self-judgments rendered, often in displaced ways, are of Hemingway's performance as a husband and a father.” Explores Hemingway’s recognition of his pattern of replacing wives and inability to live up to the ideals of a good father. Frequent references to other works such as A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, Across the River and into the Trees, and “Fathers and Sons.”
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015212699603691