VOLUME 12(3) • 2024
Drinking in the Midwest
ABSTRACT. Ernest Hemingway’s tolerance for heavy drinking is legendary. He discovered it in his early teens, and then exploited it to construct his narcissistic image of a redoubtable macho. Nick Adams, his alter ego and younger self, alternatively found in “The Three-Day Blow,” that drinking is qui..
Drinking in Italy
ABSTRACT. Rhetorically speaking, drinking was an opportunity for Hemingway to probe into gender. His younger alter ego Frederic Henry, the drinking lieutenant in A Farewell to Arms could thus envisage the personality of the ‘mother-nurse’ who will have inhabited the dream-phantasies of soldier-patie..
Drinking in France
ABSTRACT. Drinking is what Jake Barnes, Hemingway’s alter ego, does in The Sun Also Rises. As a rule, he also orbits round Lady Brett Ashley, but basically he drinks, orders drinks, talks with his ‘gentry’ and leaves out ‘the others’. Although no comments and no analyses come his way, the ‘hard-boil..
Drinking in Spain
ABSTRACT. The inter-war American expatriates seem to have found a substitute for the West in the mountains of Spain. Fishing and bullfighting were the favourite pastime of these ‘men without women,’ drinking coming second. It is still an essential dimension in the troubled personality of Jake Barnes..
Drinking in Cuba
ABSTRACT. Given his exceptional tolerance, Hemingway put drinking to multiple uses, amongst them the promotion of his aggressive narcissism. His alter ego Thomas Hudson made it an opportunity in Islands in the Stream, to bully his hangers-on and mainly to trigger his exhibitionistic ambitions to alw..
Drinking in Borderland
ABSTRACT. It is a fact, at least for the American cultural space, that writers are associated with drinking, even more so when good writing is the case in point. Etiologies are complex or rather diffuse, and so is the drinking style, although Hemingway’s “Wine of Wyoming” implies that the relationsh..