Title
Tracking the Elephant: David’s African Childhood in Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Opens with an exploration of literary sources for Hemingway’s elephant hunt episode. Focuses on the intersecting motifs of empathy and childhood within both the novel and the elephant story to illuminate David’s capacity for feeling and the dynamics of his relationship with Catherine. Concludes that the elephant story is about “empathy and the role of empathy in the writing process.”
Published in
Date
2011
Pages
176-198
COinS
Citation
Mandel, Miriam B., ed. Hemingway and Africa. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011.