Title
Hemingway’s Nick and Wendell Berry’s Art
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Reads “Making It Home,” Berry’s 1992 story of a returning soldier’s quest for restoration, as a “conscious response” to “Big Two-Hearted River.” In his comparison of the two stories, Crowe uses Berry’s qualified appreciation for Hemingway’s story as a way of understanding Berry’s own literary values and aspirations. Concludes that unlike Nick, Art undergoes a restorative transformation allowing him to reintegrate with his family and resume his life as a farmer.
Published in
Wendell Berry: Life and Work
Date
2007
Pages
192-208
COinS
Citation
Crowe, David. “Hemingway’s Nick and Wendell Berry’s Art.” In Wendell Berry: Life and Work, edited by Jason Peters, 192-208. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.