- Title
- "The tug of a far away invisible force": American Idealization of "Home" and Its Impact on Two Signature Novels
- Author/Creator
- Charles A. PeekJill Heney
- Publication Details
- Platte Valley Review, Vol.24(1), pp.60-75
- Annotation
- Details the cultural development of home as a utopian, American ideal, and its manifestation in Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms and Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby (1925). Argues that Frederic Henry searches for that which cannot be lost, but must ultimately awaken to and disabuse himself of his romantic expectations.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132267803691
Journal article
"The tug of a far away invisible force": American Idealization of "Home" and Its Impact on Two Signature Novels
Platte Valley Review, Vol.24(1), pp.60-75
1996
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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