Title
Hemingway’s Late Life Relationship with Birds
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Surveys Hemingway’s complicated fascination with birds in several texts, including Death in the Afternoon, Across the River and into the Trees, The Old Man and the Sea, and “In Another Country,” noting that the flight of birds is often associated with orgasm. Gajdusek uses “At Sea,” the third book of Islands of the Stream, to thematically explicate birds as prophesiers, arguing for their mythic and psychic importance to experiences of both life and death.
Date
1999
Pages
175-187
COinS
Citation
Fleming, Robert, ed. Hemingway and the Natural World. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1999.