Forget the legend and read the work: teaching two stories by Ernest Hemingway.
| Publisher | West Chester University |
| Publication | College Literature |
| Subject | Education |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0093-3139 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2003-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Margaret D. Bauer |
| Person | n/a | Ernest Hemingway |
This essay discusses the writer's strategies and experiences teaching two stories by Ernest Hemingway: "Indian Camp" and "Hills Like White Elephants." Bauer uses these stories as an opportunity to show students that they should not make assumptions about a writer's work based on some vague impression they have of the author's character. An image of Hemingway as some macho hunter, drinker, womanizer, and misogynist, for example, could blind the reader to any positive reading of his female characters. Bauer's reading of "Indian Camp" takes on criticism that condemns Hemingway for his...
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