Title
Noncombatant Mobilization Wounds: The Postwar Masterpieces of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Contends that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were socially emasculated by the radical mobilization policies of the US military during World War I that, by privileging meritocracy over ethnicity and class, excluded all three authors from frontline service. Examines how their frustration with their noncombatant experience manifests in their fictional construction of tragic love triangles featuring Anglo men bested by American “outsiders” in their pursuit of Anglo women. Compares The Sun Also Rises to Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929).
Published in
War Isn’t the Only Hell: A New Reading of World War I American Literature
Date
2018
Pages
35-45
Citation
Gandal, Keith. “Noncombatant Mobilization Wounds: The Postwar Masterpieces of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner.” In War Isn’t the Only Hell: A New Reading of World War I American Literature, 35-45. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.