Title
A Lamp on the Anxiety in Hemingway’s "Vital Light"
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Argues that the driving force behind Hemingway’s writing is his fear of “being misconstrued, misread, misunderstood, or mistaken by others.” Brenner contends that his fear springs from his upbringing and is revealed through his characters. Brief references to The Sun Also Rises, Islands in the Stream, The Old Man and the Sea, “The Undefeated,” “Indian Camp,” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,” and others.
Published in
Date
1991
Pages
246-256
COinS
Citation
Scafella, Frank, ed. Hemingway: Essays of Reassessment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.