Title
Too Bad Hemingway Never Reached The Reef: Wharton's Anna Leath and Hemingway's Brett Ashley
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Compares Wharton's depiction of the twentieth-century New Woman in The Reef (1912) with Hemingway's in The Sun Also Rises, concluding that Brett Ashley lacks the substance and believability of Wharton's Anna Leath. Discusses the impact of Wharton's 1925 book The Writing of Fiction on the young Hemingway's developing aesthetic.
Published in
Date
2019
Pages
135-50
COinS
Citation
Tyler, Lisa, ed. Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019.