Title
Why Kill the Animals? The Allegory of Violence in Stories by Hemingway, Orwell, and Rosenblatt
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Places “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” and Roger Rosenblatt’s “The Killers in the Next Tent” in an American allegorical tradition that uses the suffering of animals to highlight the horror of human violence and cruelty.
Published in
JASAT (Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas)
Volume
40
Date
2009
Pages
53-70
COinS
Citation
Whitt, Jan. “Why Kill the Animals? The Allegory of Violence in Stories by Hemingway, Orwell, and Rosenblatt.” JASAT (Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas) 40 (November 2009): 53-70.