Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Lecture II

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Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Lecture II

• Ramón Saldívar
• Stanford University

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Irony as a principle of structure in SAR

• Modernity and Irony
• Irony defined
• Saying one thing while meaning another
• The warping of a statement by the pressure of
  context
• The Iceberg Principle
• Nobody ever knows anything SAR, 35

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Irony as a strategy of containment in SAR

• certain injuries or imperfections are a subject
  of merriment while remaining quite serious for
  the person possessing them, SAR 35
• The Simplicity of language
• The Simplicity of meaning
• The Irony of the Not Said
• The (Political) Unconscious

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Lady Brett Ashley and Hemingways Hairy Chest

• Hemingways stereotypical machismo
• Nobody could be that masculine. --Zelda
  Fitzgerald
• "Come out from behind that false hair on your
  chest, Ernest. We all know you." -- Max Eastman
• Maybe we were androgynous. -- Mary Hemingway

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Max Eastman
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Brett Ashley and the Male Critics

• Allen Tate, hard-boiled
• Theodore Bardake, a woman devoid of womanhood
• Jackson Benson, a female who never becomes a
  woman
• Edmond Wilson, an exclusively destructive
  force
• And John Aldridge, a compulsive bitch

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Bretts Gender Roles

• On one hand, she is a femme fatale dangerous to
  men
• On the other, she frequently lapses into the role
  of redemptive woman, trying to save men through
  her sexuality

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Sexual Politics in SAR

• Masculine eroticism confines women
• Loss of masculine power and authority
• Leads to loss of the right to exercise control

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Money, Morality, Sexuality

• Jakes market theory of emotions
• Women made such swell friends, SAR, 152
• Enjoying living was learning to get your moneys
  worth, SAR, 152
• The world was a good place to buy in, SAR, 152

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Love, Sex and Bullfighting

• Jakes and Bretts gender role reversal
• the holding of his purity of line through the
  maximum of exposure SAR, p. 172