Title
The Horrors of War Mobilization: The Early Works of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Dos Passos
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Discusses the suffering noncombatant featured in Hemingway’s “A Very Short Story,” Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), Dos Passos’s Three Soldiers (1921), and Faulkner’s Soldiers’ Pay (1926), arguing that his feeling of humiliation stemming from his lack of frontline service is based on the lived experience of the authors. Gandal focuses on the protagonists’ intense mental anguish and how each deal with the social stigma associated with his noncombatant status, including rejection by women in search of higher-ranking men.
Published in
War Isn’t the Only Hell: A New Reading of World War I American Literature
Date
2018
Pages
46-68
COinS
Citation
Gandal, Keith. “The Horrors of War Mobilization: The Early Works of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Dos Passos.” In War Isn’t the Only Hell: A New Reading of World War I American Literature, 46-68. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.