Title
Tanks, Butterflies, Realists, Idealists: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Imperfect Ending in Spain of 1937-1938
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Reads “The Butterfly and the Tank” as an allegory of the breakup of Hemingway’s twenty-five-year friendship with John Dos Passos over the execution of José Robles, characterizing Dos Passos as the naïve idealist and Hemingway as the cynical realist. Ott discusses the challenges Hemingway faced in finding a suitable ending for the story, drawing on typescript versions in his analysis.
Published in
Date
2016
Pages
152-161
COinS
Citation
Eby, Carl P. and Mark Cirino, eds. Hemingway’s Spain: Imagining the Spanish World. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016.