Title
Big Two-Hearted Writer: Part One
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Interprets “Big Two-Hearted River” in terms of paradox and dividedness, examining Nick’s isolation, troubled consciousness, and transformation. Compares Nick to Jake and Bill of The Sun Also Rises, and connects both Nick and Jake to T. S. Elliot’s Fisher King in The Waste Land (1922).
Published in
Haunted by Waters: Fly Fishing in North American Literature
Date
1998
Pages
83-100
COinS
Citation
Browning, Mark. “Big Two-Hearted Writer: Part One.” In Haunted by Waters: Fly Fishing in North American Literature, 83-100. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998.