Reads Jake’s and Brett’s responses to the traumatic aftereffects of World War I considering Martin Harries’s recent study on destructive spectatorship, which argues that facing the past, as in the biblical story of Lot’s wife, poses the threat of mental and physical annihilation. Haytock concludes: “For Hemingway’s veterans, the horror of not being destroyed by the violence they have witnessed must be balanced with the need to remember, which itself is a dangerous activity.
