Title
Life Unworthy of Life?: Masculinity, Disability, and Guilt in The Sun Also Rises
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Draws on disability studies to examine the complex relationship between Jake’s identity and stereotypes connecting disability to sexual and masculine degeneration. Traces Jake’s sexual struggles considering cultural and historical beliefs about disabled men, concluding that Jake internalizes the stereotype of the sexually disabled man “who would be better off dead.”
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
26
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2007
Pages
74-88
COinS
Citation
Fore, Dana. “Life Unworthy of Life?: Masculinity, Disability, and Guilt in The Sun Also Rises.” Hemingway Review, 26, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 74-88.