Title
"Juxtaposition" and "Contrast": Unifying Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Traces the influence of the metaphysical poetry of John Donne on Hemingway’s notion of love in To Have and Have Not. Sees the novel’s greatest unifying principle of subject and theme to be the metaphysical union of Harry and Marie. Banis compares the beauty and depth of the Morgans’ monogamous marriage to the empty and unfulfilled relationships of the other couples to prove Morgan’s powerful statement on the human condition: “A man alone ain’t got no bloody fucking chance.” Discusses Hemingway’s use of the iceberg principle, which depends on the reader’s active participation, thus resulting in a kind of “perpetual now” (fifth dimension) each time the novel is read anew.
Published in
Date
1999
Pages
131-154
Citation
Knott, Toni D., ed. One Man Alone: Hemingway and “To Have and Have Not.” Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.