Earl Rovit (essay date 1963)
SOURCE: "The Real Thing," in Ernest Hemingway, Twayne Publishers, 1963, pp. 35-9.
[In the following excerpt, Rovit examines the theme of artistic failure in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."]
Although many of Hemingway's heroes might nominally qualify as artists—Jake Barnes, writer; Nick Adams, writer; Frederick Henry, architect; Richard Cantwell, expert in general; Robert Jordan, writer—only Harry of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is presented convincingly as a writer; and only he seems actively concerned with the...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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