Character Construction and Agency: Teaching Hemingway’s A Way You’ll Never Be

Abstract

Structuralist approach empowering students to critically analyze Hemingway’s construction of Nick Adams by drawing on Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan’s characterization of action schema found in Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (1983). Brings in examples from The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and Across the River and into the Trees to further illustrate Rimmon-Kenan’s approach

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