Title
Crime and Sympathy
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Examines the roots of “hard boiled” crime fiction, primarily focusing on Dreiser’s An American Tragedy (1925). Parallels Hemingway with Dreiser through “the way that their ‘anti-sentimentality’ contains a sentimentality which fundamentally informs their projects—and those of their literary descendants.” Looks at Hemingway’s style of anti-sentimental sentimentality in In Our Time, A Farewell to Arms, “The Killers,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”
Published in
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
Date
2009
Pages
24-46
COinS
Citation
Cassuto, Leonard. “Crime and Sympathy.” In Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, 24-46. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.