"Big Two-Hearted River"

 

 

 

Critical Sources:

  • Baker, Sheridan. "Hemingway's Two-Hearted River." Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review 65 (Winter 1959): 142-49. Rpt. in Benson 150-59.
  • Benson, Jackson J., ed. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1975.
  • Gibb, Robert. "He Made Him Up: 'Big Two-Hearted River' as Doppleganger." Hemingway Notes (1975): 20-24. Rpt. in Reynolds 254-59.
  • Reynolds, Michael S., ed. Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
  • Smith, Paul. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.

 

Discussion starters

Baker says that Nick's fishing "becomes something symbolic of larger endeavor" (153). What is that larger endeavor?

What evidence is there to support Gibb's claim that Nick is trying "to suppress the memory of the war" (256)?

 

 

 
Created by Stan Galloway 10 December 1997. Last updated 26 April 2001.