Title
Mothers, Nurses, Bitches, Girls, and Devils
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Explores Hemingway’s use and modification of a limited repertory of female character types based on the familial positions of father, mother, sister, and brother. Examines how Hemingway individualizes each female stock character as outlined in the chapter’s title. Treats “Now I Lay Me,” A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Garden of Eden.
Published in
Date
1994
Pages
21-72
COinS
Citation
Comley, Nancy R. and Robert Scholes. Hemingway’s Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.