Title
The Setting
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Explores the validity of several geographical and historical elements Hemingway uses in the novel. Examines the tension between the native Key West/Cuban population and the outsiders, especially tourists drawn in through the efforts of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and other New Deal agencies to alleviate the area’s depressed economy. Discusses Hemingway’s treatment of prohibition, bootlegging, and Cuban politics within their historical and cultural contexts.
Published in
Date
1999
Pages
65-80
COinS
Citation
Knott, Toni D., ed. One Man Alone: Hemingway and “To Have and Have Not.” Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.