
Title
Insomnia and the Psychoanalytical Reading of Hemingway’s "Now I Lay Me"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Explores the seemingly contradictory nature of sleep in “Big Two-Hearted River” and “Now I Lay Me,” claiming in the later story that Nick’s insomnia serves as a psychological defense against his traumatic war memories by creating a childhood “screen memory,” purportedly a manifestation of Nick’s repressed fear of emasculation.
Published in
Inter Action
Volume
4
Date
1996
Pages
104-109
COinS
Citation
Buckham, David. “Insomnia and the Psychoanalytical Reading of Hemingway’s ‘Now I Lay Me.’” Inter Action 4 (1996): 104-9.