VERBAL IRONY
Well, it's not like Frances had any emotional baggage or anything. <---(verbal irony, points for Christian!) But, chapter 6, the "Frances blow-up chapter" as it shall now be dubbed, was an effective mix of verbal irony, straightforward, painful truth, and hysterical ranting. I feel Hemingway didn't want to utilize an all-or-nothing approach to Frances' verbal tools to belittle Robert, which allowed the freedom to sound crazy in many ways. This is a more potent combination both to evoke the reader's emotions and to diminish the validity of Robert; however, strong verbally ironic phrases (ex. "What was it? About your going to England?" "Yes, about my going to England. Oh, Jake! I forgot to tell you. I'm going to England." pg. 55) are present throughout.
ALLUSION
In addition, Frances is allusioning up a storm in her verbal beat-down. "I suppose that we that live by the sword shall perish by the sword." pg. 57 and "Look at Hardy. Look at Anatole France. He died just a little while ago." pg. 57 are both examples of literary allusions. The first references the bible, which coincides with where Hemingway got the title for this most glorious of books. The second references "great" authors whom I don't know. Frances at this time was smashing Robert's writing career, so literary allusions seemed appropriate and all that much more hurtful. You go girl!
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers
Alas, here it is, the first of some beauteous blog entries. Do enjoy.
The Sun Also Rises
Well, Earnest Hemingway, you wrote quite a first chapter. So quite, in fact, that it left me with a few questions, which I suppose every good first chapter of a book should or else the reader may clock out early (On a side note, I just used an apostrophe in my blog! I'm such a good little Lit student).
The first of these questions though is, "Okay, you told me about Robert Cohn and his boxing, rich, jewy-ness, but why should I care?" I guess I better read on (as if I had a choice).
Also, I wanted to know exactly who Spider Kelly is in order to know if Hemingway is alluding to anything important. So kids, here's what the all-knowing Wikipedia has to say,
"Billy "Spider" Kelly (April 21, 1932 – May 7, 2010) was an Irish boxer from Derry, Northern Ireland whose career highlight was winning the Commonwealth (British Empire) featherweight title in 1954. He went on to win the British featherweight title in 1955."
Riveting.
So, I guess we're not really missing out. But he did die recently. Jeopardy question, anyone?
Anyway, let's get to that whole analyzing thing. ZOOOOOOOM!
What really jumped out at me the first time through this chapter was Hemingway's use of "rise," which happens to be the verb of choice of the title of this particular book. Coincidence? I think not. (Or maybe it is...) What I'm crazily referring to is "He had been taken in hand by a lady who hoped to rise with the magazine." and "When this lady saw that the magazine was not going to rise, she became a little disgusted with Cohn and decided that she might as well get what there was to get while there was still something available, so she urged that they go to Europe, where Cohn could write." pg. 13, 1st full paragraph.
Here, I believe, Hemingway makes a relationship between Cohn's writing career and his love life, both brutal and unforgiving, yet covetous of his time, in addition to "The Sun Also Ris[ing]," which still baffles me as to what that actually means.
Good day!
The Sun Also Rises
Well, Earnest Hemingway, you wrote quite a first chapter. So quite, in fact, that it left me with a few questions, which I suppose every good first chapter of a book should or else the reader may clock out early (On a side note, I just used an apostrophe in my blog! I'm such a good little Lit student).
The first of these questions though is, "Okay, you told me about Robert Cohn and his boxing, rich, jewy-ness, but why should I care?" I guess I better read on (as if I had a choice).
Also, I wanted to know exactly who Spider Kelly is in order to know if Hemingway is alluding to anything important. So kids, here's what the all-knowing Wikipedia has to say,
"Billy "Spider" Kelly (April 21, 1932 – May 7, 2010) was an Irish boxer from Derry, Northern Ireland whose career highlight was winning the Commonwealth (British Empire) featherweight title in 1954. He went on to win the British featherweight title in 1955."
Riveting.
So, I guess we're not really missing out. But he did die recently. Jeopardy question, anyone?
Anyway, let's get to that whole analyzing thing. ZOOOOOOOM!
What really jumped out at me the first time through this chapter was Hemingway's use of "rise," which happens to be the verb of choice of the title of this particular book. Coincidence? I think not. (Or maybe it is...) What I'm crazily referring to is "He had been taken in hand by a lady who hoped to rise with the magazine." and "When this lady saw that the magazine was not going to rise, she became a little disgusted with Cohn and decided that she might as well get what there was to get while there was still something available, so she urged that they go to Europe, where Cohn could write." pg. 13, 1st full paragraph.
Here, I believe, Hemingway makes a relationship between Cohn's writing career and his love life, both brutal and unforgiving, yet covetous of his time, in addition to "The Sun Also Ris[ing]," which still baffles me as to what that actually means.
Good day!
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