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To Have and Have Not
by Ernest Hemingway
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a darkly fatalistic story of Harry Morgan and his inevitably tragic ending. You see it coming and can't turn away like the gawkers on the pier as the boat is towed into the Coast Guard pier in the penultimate scene.
Yes, there are love stories here as well, but they're more window dressing to the terrible tolls the characters exact on one another and themselves. Rambling, rambunctious, and a roller coaster ride of narrative and character, I got a strong sense of Hemingway reaching for something which, knowing his fascination with Joyce and his "Ulysses" seemed to come close to a worthy tribute to the great novel especially in the closing chapters.
It's an uneven mishmash of a novel, but one which I'm glad I finally came to after reading "The Sun Also Rises" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" earlier this year.
Yes, there are love stories here as well, but they're more window dressing to the terrible tolls the characters exact on one another and themselves. Rambling, rambunctious, and a roller coaster ride of narrative and character, I got a strong sense of Hemingway reaching for something which, knowing his fascination with Joyce and his "Ulysses" seemed to come close to a worthy tribute to the great novel especially in the closing chapters.
It's an uneven mishmash of a novel, but one which I'm glad I finally came to after reading "The Sun Also Rises" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" earlier this year.