Title
"I Won’t Kiss You…. I’ll Send Your English Girl": Homoerotic Desire in A Farewell to Arms
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Reads Rinaldi’s attempts to kiss Frederic as acts of homosexual eroticism rather than European gestures of brotherhood and friendship. Relying on the feminist theories of Gayle Rubin and Eve Sedgwick, Cohen argues that Rinaldi traffics Catherine as a sexual commodity to eroticize his bond with Frederic.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
15
Issue
1
Date
Fall 1995
Pages
42-53
COinS
Citation
Cohen, Peter F. “‘I Won’t Kiss You.... I’ll Send Your English Girl’: Homoerotic Desire in A Farewell to Arms.” Hemingway Review 15, no. 1 (Fall 1995): 42-53.