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- Title
Pauline Pfeiffer's Safari Journal and Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro".
- Authors
Ledden, Dennis B.
- Abstract
Undoubtedly, however, if Ernest and Pauline had not undertaken what was the Hemingway's first safari to East Africa in December of 1933, Ernest most certainly would not have had the resources necessary to compose what turned out to be one of his most complex works. Although Harry, in reference to his gangrene, had informed Helen, "THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT'S painless" (39), Williamson, with "his bowels spilled out into the wire, " begged 130 | The Hemingway Review "everyone to kill him" (53) - this, along with the subsequent request to "Shoot me, Harry" (53), are nevertheless reminiscent of Harry's proposal to Helen, "you can shoot me" (39). Moreover, as Jeffrey Meyers asserts, Ernest, like Harry, associated the depletion of his recent literary successes with his wife and her family's money: "in the mid-1930s Hemingway ironically and irrationally began to blame Pauline as Harry blamed Helen ... for the corrupting influence of her wealth" (qtd. in Kennedy, "Figuring" 328). Hemingway increased the conflict of Harry's final reminiscence and, in effect, that of "Snows" story proper, through his rendering of Williamson's plight as much more tragic than the medical conditions of either Hemingway or Harry.
- Subjects
SAFARIS; SEPSIS; DESPAIR
- Publication
Hemingway Review, 2021, Vol 40, Issue 2, p116
- ISSN
0276-3362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hem.2021.0007