Title
Hemingway’s Study of Impending Death: Across the River and into the Trees
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Challenges criticism that Colonel Cantwell is a comic caricature, claiming instead that he is sensitively portrayed as a man recalling finer moments of his life as he tries to exert control over his impending death. Also proposes that Alvarito is an important character in his developing relationship with Renata.
Published in
Date
1990
Pages
143-152
COinS
Citation
Lewis, Robert W., ed. Hemingway in Italy and Other Essays. New York: Praeger, 1990.