Level 4, Intermediate, Post 3, 'Theme Free Post'

 - Comments: Ask students to leave a comment on your post + 3 of their classmates' posts.

- Word Count for post 4: 200 words

I will leave you  the beginning of a Critical Review that I wrote two years ago, as a manner of example,

Mobilizing the object of study, Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”

The following work attempts to look for an intertextual dialogue to occur between T S Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”. For this to be achieved, several passages from both the poem and the novels have been selected in order to find a point of convergence concerning one paramount topic, the one of the ‘solitude in the quotidian’.

As a mode of beginning, the topic that may follow up: ‘the solitude in the quotidian’, portrayed in Fitzgerald’s and Eliot’s passages it is now reversed to the coming across of ‘company in the quotidian’. It is in the following lines of Hemingway’s novel that one may find such development of such topic “We stayed five days at Burguete and had good fishing. The nights were cold and the days were hot, and there was always a breeze even in the heat of the day.” (Hemingway, 66)

In the lines above, the voice of narration in Hemingway’s novel is presenting the interaction with the quotidian in a positive outlook. The passage of time is told as a natural, and there is no a tedious tone. There is no an accountancy of days and nights, but an accounting for pleasant experiences in the quotidian. To have “a good fishing” can be accounted for a pleasant and satisfactory experience found in the quotidian. (...)

References

·         Eliot, T. S., and Frank Kermode. The Wasteland and Other Poems. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin, 1998. Print.

·         Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Print.

·         Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner, 1996. Print.