Title
Bad Luck or No Luck at All: Religion, Magic, and Chance
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Analyzes the roles of chance and luck, pointing to Hemingway’s extensive world travels as the source of his magico-religious knowledge. Grimes contends that in the Darwinian world of chance that Harry Morgan inhabits, luck and voodoo provide alternatives to the ineffective presence of Western Christianity. Speculates that the cursed Gordon represents a warning to all irresponsible writers.
Date
1999
Pages
201-212
COinS
Citation
Knott, Toni D., ed. One Man Alone: Hemingway and “To Have and Have Not.” Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.