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- Title
Nick Adams's Interior Monologues in Hemingway's "A Way You'll Never Be".
- Authors
Beall, John
- Abstract
Nick's extending his claim to his dream life ("he never dreamed about the front") only reinforces one's sense that the dreams of the yellow house are somehow associated with the front, in ways that, at this stage of interior monologues, Nick denies. None of Hemingway's previous Nick Adams stories set on the Italian front in World W ar I - chapter VI of In Our Time, "In Another Country, " or "Now I Lay Me" - includes mustard gas as part of the military menace that Nick has faced. This sequence of hallucinatory memories is a mixture of the erotic and the sacred: a show-dancer remembered "with feathers on, with feathers off, " and connected in Nick's fantasy with a ride up to Montmartre and Sacré Coeur.7 Contributing to this strange sequence is Nick Adams's fancying himself as singing "you called me baby doll a year ago tadada" (CSS 310).
- Subjects
MONOLOGUE; IDENTITY (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGICAL factors; CRYING
- Publication
Hemingway Review, 2021, Vol 40, Issue 2, p94
- ISSN
0276-3362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hem.2021.0006