To Have and Have Not | Themes
For a writer who once said that writing is architecture and not interior decoration, Hemingway's book betrays the haphazard story of its genesis. The many disparities between the three parts are but a sign of a mid-course switch from a hard-boiled and hard-hitting story of the decline of an individual, to an unfocused and watered-down novel about Harry Morgan and society. Still, enough remains of the initial design to make a major theme of Harry's tragic downfall, played out with an almost classical relentlessness. Like Oedipus Rex, whom we also encounter at the top of his station in...
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