Title
Getting Closer to "It": Linking Hemingway’s World War I Short Stories
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Knodt draws on correspondence, interviews, and manuscripts in her chronological reading of Hemingway’s Italian war stories, “In Another Country,” “Now I Lay Me,” and “A Way You’ll Never Be,” to show the author’s gradual closing in on his own traumatic wounding through his thematic exploration of courage, fear, and death. Opens with an analysis of the vagueness of battle found in the early “Soldier’s Home” and “Big Two-Hearted River” before moving into an examination of the progressively detailed descriptions of battlefield experiences depicted in the later narratives. Argues that with “A Way You’ll Never Be,” the author is finally able to capture the essence of his psychological and physical wounding at Fossalta fifteen years after the event.
Published in
Midwestern Miscellany
Volume
47
Date
2019
Pages
83-95
Citation
Knodt, Ellen Andrews. “Getting Closer to ‘It’: Linking Hemingway’s World War I Short Stories.” Midwestern Miscellany 47 (Spring/Fall 2019): 83-95.