Title
War, Gender, and Ernest Hemingway
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Arguing that gender issues and war trauma are inextricably connected in Hemingway’s canon, Vernon opposes scholarship dividing gender and war in “Big Two-Hearted River.” Explains that for a man to suppress war in his mind, he must suppress the familial social ties that motivate him to fight. Vernon draws on A Farewell to Arms to show how war also complicates a man’s gender identity by emasculating and pacifying his agency. Finally, Vernon contends that “Cross-Country Snow” and “An Alpine Idyll” are best understood as transient respites from both war and social obligations.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
22
Issue
1
Date
Fall 2002
Pages
34-55
COinS
Citation
Vernon, Alex. “War, Gender, and Ernest Hemingway.” Hemingway Review 22, no. 1 (Fall 2002): 34-55.