Title
Hemingway’s Art of Self-Exculpation in Life and in The Garden of Eden
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Relying on letters, manuscripts, A Moveable Feast, and The Garden of Eden, Miller explores Hemingway’s shifting feelings of guilt over his failed first marriage to Hadley. Finds that despite Hemingway’s exoneration of Hadley in A Moveable Feast, the wives in The Garden of Eden are primarily responsible for the disintegrating marriages. Argues that in the published ending of the novel, Hemingway demonstrates the artist’s renewal through the casting off of guilt and resumption of craft.
Published in
MidAmerica
Volume
19
Date
1992
Pages
27-35
COinS
Citation
Miller, Paul W. “Hemingway’s Art of Self-Exculpation in Life and in The Garden of Eden.” MidAmerica 19 (1992): 27-35.