Title
"How Beautiful the Virgin Forests Were Before the Loggers Came": An Ecofeminist Reading of Hemingway’s "The End of Something"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Argues that the opening passage of the short story represents a vivid metaphor comparing the loggers’ destruction of trees and the economy of Horton’s Bay to Nick’s destruction of his relationship with Marjorie. Contends that Hemingway considered men’s sexual exploitation of women analogous to the logging industry’s desecration of northern Michigan.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
27
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2008
Pages
60-73
COinS
Citation
Tyler, Lisa. “‘How Beautiful the Virgin Forests Were Before the Loggers Came’: An Ecofeminist Reading of Hemingway’s ‘The End of Something.’” Hemingway Review 27, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 60-73.