Nick Adams's Interior Monologues in Hemingway's "A Way You'll Never Be"

Journal article

John Beall

The Hemingway Review, Vol.40(2), pp.94-115

04/01/2021

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Title: Nick Adams's Interior Monologues in Hemingway's "A Way You'll Never Be"
Author/Creator: John Beall
Publication Details: The Hemingway Review, Vol.40(2), pp.94-115
Annotation: As Hemingway wrote to his editor, maxwell Perkins, he once thought "A Way You'll Never Be" would give his collection, Winner Take Noting, an action-packed tale. Instead, the story became what Hemingway described as a "hell of a difficult one." At the center of its difficulty and its power are interior monologues from the viewpoint of Nick Adams, who veers between memoires of battles on the Italian front, memories of Paris, and dreams centered on a yellow house. In order to understand Nick's monologues, this essay explores four allusions in the story-to an Italian battle cry ("Savoia"), to a "teleferica," to Parisian night scenes, and to a yellow house. Hemingway competed a story whose difficulties are central to its powerful portrait of Nick's struggle for self-command.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015130884503691