Title
"Very Sad but Very Fine": Death in the Afternoon’s Imagist Interpretation of the Bullfight-Text
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Discusses bullfighting as a symbolic art form representing societal relations, shifting gender roles, and national identity. Reads Death in the Afternoon as an explanatory defense of the complexities of both bullfighting and Hemingway’s iceberg style. Concludes with discussions of the thematic significance of chapter twenty to the entire narrative, Hemingway’s theory of writing, and preeminence in the modernist tradition.
Date
2004
Pages
143-164
COinS
Citation
Mandel, Miriam B., ed. A Companion to Ernest Hemingway’s “Death in the Afternoon.” Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004.