The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

The Crowd at War and at Home in Hemingway’s and Fitzgerald’s Fiction

Document Type

Essay

Citation

West, Benjamin S. “The Crowd at War and at Home in Hemingway’s and Fitzgerald’s Fiction.” In Crowd Violence in American Modernist Fiction: Lynchings, Riots and the Individual Under Assault, 103-27. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.

Annotation

Contrary to criticism that Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald failed to address the racial issues that plagued their time, West claims that both authors reference issues of racial inequality through their persistent use of mob violence in their analysis of social norms regarding gender roles and masculinity. Analyzes The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls along with Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender is the Night (1934), concluding that neither writer could conceive of the masculine ideal’s fulfillment in the modern world.

Published in

Crowd Violence in American Modernist Fiction: Lynchings, Riots and the Individual Under Assault

Date

2013

Pages

103-127

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