Title
Hemingway’s Key West Band of Brothers: The World War I Veterans in ‘Who Murdered the Vets?’ and To Have and Have Not
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Provides historical context for Hemingway’s proletarian period beginning with his searing indictment of governmental indifference following the 1935 Key West hurricane found in “Who Murdered the Vets?”. Traces Hemingway’s evolving depiction of soldiers from individuals to key types, detailing Hemingway’s shift from personal portraits such as that of In Our Times’s traumatized Nick Adams to the broader critique of social factors oppressing veterans found in the later To Have and Have Not. Concludes that Hemingway’s evolving perspective away from the individual to the group experience paved the way for his successful “portrait of the Spanish irregulars who help Robert Jordan blow the bridge in For Whom the Bell Tolls.”
Published in
Date
2009
Pages
241-266
Citation
Curnutt, Kirk and Gail D. Sinclair, eds. Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.