Title
"Now I Lay Me": Nick’s Strange Monologue, Hemingway’s Powerful Lyric, and the Reader’s Disconcerting Experience
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Examines the multilayered experience of reading by focusing on cognitive, emotive, and ethical constructs within the narrative. Connects “Now I Lay Me” with other stories in Men Without Women, claiming that its ethical force depends on readers’ participation in the set of questionable values that underlie it, specifically the troubling analogy between wives and mortar shells.
Date
1998
Pages
47-72
COinS
Citation
Smith, Paul, ed. New Essays on Hemingway’s Short Fiction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.