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Title

Allusions to The Merchant of Venice and the New Testament in "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen": Hemingway’s Anti-Semitism Reconsidered

Document Type

Article

Citation

Kruse, Horst H. “Allusions to The Merchant of Venice and the New Testament in ‘God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen’: Hemingway’s Anti-Semitism Reconsidered.” Hemingway Review 25, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 61-75.

Annotation

Claims the difficulties of the short story are overcome by understanding Hemingway’s use of allusion and manipulation of facts to satirize the American Midwest and its puritanical values. Kruse interprets Jewish Fischer as a Christ figure and Christian Wilcox as a representative of organized religion, noting inverted parallels between the story and The Merchant of Venice. Reads Hemingway’s portrait of a Jewish doctor as the story’s moral center as atonement for his former anti-Semitism.

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Hemingway Review

Volume

25

Issue

2

Date

Spring 2006

Pages

61-75

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