Title
Pastoral Regression in Hemingway and Faulkner
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Close reading of the landscape imagery of “Big Two-Hearted River,” asserting that Nick Adams’s interactions with rural Michigan reveal Hemingway’s attempt to reconcile the world of autonomous women with a docile feminine landscape. Goes on to argue that Hemingway’s male characters’ efforts to control and dominate nature reflect a deep-seated preference for traditional masculine values, which is ultimately detrimental to both characters and the author himself.
Published in
The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender and American Fiction
Date
1996
Pages
82-124
COinS
Citation
Westling, Louise Hutchings. “Pastoral Regression in Hemingway and Faulkner.” In The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender and American Fiction, 82-124. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.