Subject: Re: farewell to arms
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 11:12:27 EDT
you guys are all wanting me to run back and read Hemingway again :). It's
been years...
Jim
Will Hochman wrote:
> Tim, before you go to sleep, would you mind telling me the straight
> story of "Indian Camp." I've read that story often and think it is
> one of my favorites, but I also think it subverts your point.
>
> You wrote " Nick and the doctor and Uncle George take the camp
> rowboat to "Indian Camp," and we get the story straight. There isn't
> much fiction that
> tells it as straight as that.
>
> What's the straight story? Who is the real father? In my reading,
> this story seems to be straightforward, but I have doubts. Is Nick's
> father a good doctor or a bad teacher? Is Uncle George the real
> father of the baby? I think Salinger, like Hemingway, loved telling a
> story that later makes us ask questions and re-read the story
> differently...will
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