Title
The Crowd at War and at Home in Hemingway’s and Fitzgerald’s Fiction
Document Type
Essay
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
COinS
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.