Title
Gilchrist’s Composite Personality and Story Cycle: Transforming Ernest Hemingway
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Explicates the thematic and structural parallels to Hemingway In Our Time found in Gilchrist’s In the Land of Dreamy Dreams (1981). Asserts that Gilchrist’s prototypical character Rhonda shares many characteristics with Hemingway’s Nick Adams. Argues that Gilchrist’s story cycles and composite personalities work to deconstruct the Hemingway hero, especially in terms of gender relations.
Published in
The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist
Date
1999
Pages
23-56
COinS
Citation
Bauer, Margaret Donovan. “Gilchrist’s Composite Personality and Story Cycle: Transforming Ernest Hemingway.” In The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist, 23-56. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.