To Have and Have Not | Characters
As much as Hemingway may have wanted his protagonist to function as an individual, Harry Morgan is little more than a type of a rogue individualist with the Gulf as his last frontier. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet", the hero replies to a veiled threat on just the third page of the book. He sounds like a hard-boiled detective rather than a fishing boat captain. That being the case, Harry Morgan behaves like a character out of a Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler novel. Harry hires out for a fixed...
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