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
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.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
25
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2006
Pages
61-75
COinS
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.