A review by ltfitch
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

3.0

I enjoyed this- in large part because it of the Hemingway novels I have read, it seemed most akin to the way people think and talk about Hemingway today. Very macho, man vs. man, man vs. world. I read The Sun Also Rises a year or so ago and in many ways, To Have felt like an apology for the privileged sulking of that book. Harry Morgan, the protagonist, has very real problems as do most of the other characters trying to make their way in the Depression. But then he also shows that the rich aren't so happy either- no win, I suppose. It's more 3.5 but I had to round down given the bleak world view.