Title
Rabbit Stew and Blowing Dorothy’s Bridges: Love, Aggression, and Fetishism in For Whom the Bell Tolls
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Psychoanalytic approach hypothesizing that Jordan and Maria’s relationship is indicative of Hemingway’s own repressed aggression and displacement of his “castration panic” onto the fetishized “castrated/phallic female,” Maria. Cites Maria’s nickname, conejo, as connoting both “hare” and “hair,” connecting the novel’s repeated references to rabbits with the perverse sexuality between Maria and Jordan.
Published in
Twentieth Century Literature
Volume
44
Issue
2
Date
1998
Pages
204-218
COinS
Citation
Eby, Carl P. “Rabbit Stew and Blowing Dorothy’s Bridges: Love, Aggression, and Fetishism in For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Twentieth Century Literature 44, no. 2 (1998): 204-18.