Title
"In Those Days the Distances Were All Very Different": Alienation in Ernest Hemingway’s "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Explores the theme of universal alienation, particularly considering its comparison of Kansas City to Constantinople in its opening paragraph. Draws on early manuscripts to demonstrate that the image of the two cities, sharing only a landscape of barren hills, signifies an insurmountable, culturally produced divide between humans. It is this division, Levitzke claims, that ultimately “leaves one human unable to save another.”
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
30
Issue
1
Date
Fall 2010
Pages
18-30
COinS
Citation
Levitzke, Shannon Whitlock. “‘In Those Days the Distances Were All Very Different’: Alienation in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.’” Hemingway Review 30, no. 1 (Fall 2010): 18-30.