Title
Things They Carried: Nick, Hemingway and Oak Park Connections to the Western Front
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Biographical and manuscript study. Grimes contextualizes the religious themes of In Our Time, speculating on the influence of sermons by Hemingway’s Oak Park pastor, William E. Barton, on the religious and ideological thinking of the young Hemingway as he entered World War I. Grimes unpacks Barton’s theological and philosophical message regarding humanity’s responsibility to maintain moral order in the face of Germany’s wartime violence and brutality. Focuses on the connection between Nick’s wounding in Chapter VI and the foxhole prayer of Chapter VII, reading the latter as both bargaining trick and sincere entreaty.
Published in
Midwestern Miscellany
Volume
47
Date
2019
Pages
16-28
COinS
Citation
Grimes, Larry. “Things They Carried: Nick, Hemingway and Oak Park Connections to the Western Front.” Midwestern Miscellany 47 (Spring/Fall 2019): 16-28.