Title
Ernest Hemingway: "Isn’t It Pretty to Think So?"
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Focuses on Hemingway’s use of irony in In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises. Defining Calvinist humor in terms of the limits of human behavior (the irony of Fallen Man unable to realize his own fallen state), Dunne argues that although Hemingway’s fiction shifts away from religious orthodoxy, his use of the code, especially in his early fiction, serves as a secular substitute in the modern world. Examines “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” “Soldier’s Home,” “My Old Man,” “A Very Short Story,” and “Big Two-Hearted River.”
Published in
Calvinist Humor in American Literature
Date
2007
Pages
128-144
COinS
Citation
Dunne, Michael. “Ernest Hemingway: ‘Isn’t It Pretty to Think So?’” In Calvinist Humor in American Literature, 128-44. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.