Title
Who is the "Destructive Type"?: Re-Reading Literary Jealousy and Destruction in The Garden of Eden
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Manuscript study. Amends the traditionally defined opposition between creator-David and destroyer-Catherine to include a reversal of these roles. Notes specifically David’s often ignored status as a destroyer of his own honeymoon narrative, a storyline left out of the published edition. Introduces Hemingway’s own out-of-character destruction of parts of the manuscript as a third tension, arguing that the couple reflects Hemingway’s jealous, “bisexually driven” psyche.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
33
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2014
Pages
99-106
COinS
Citation
Eby, Carl P. “Who is the ‘Destructive Type’?: Re-Reading Literary Jealousy and Destruction in The Garden of Eden.” Hemingway Review 33, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 99-106.