Subject: Re: Infinite Jest, Laughing Man and Too Much Joy. . .
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 20 1997 - 14:36:45 GMT
I think "Hills Life White Elephants" is one of the great stories to make
us realize how much literature makes us need to reach behond the surface
of things...and I think a bit of hitorical context might help--in the days
of hemingway and salinger, pregnant but not married carried big time
psychic weight and maybe part of what we see as style was also part of a
cultural morality (not that I approve of this puritantical aspect) that
made even hinting at pregnancy a big thing. will
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:04:36 -0500 (CDT) bananafish@lists.nyu.edu wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Steve Gallagher wrote:
> >> if Salinger wasn't little heavy-handed in pushing that idea in my head
> >> and, therefore, all the more brilliant for leading me astray? Perhaps
> >> his shot at a _Hills Like White Elephants_ style of story.
> >>
> >> SGallagher
> >>
> >I'm interested as to what quality of _Hills Like White Elephants_ you are
> >referring to.
> >
> >ben
> >
>
> i think he meant the whole unexpressed, unresolved pregnancy thing.--matt
>
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