The legendary feminist critic Judith Fetterley joins us to discuss her brilliant and incendiary work on A Farewell to Arms, a piece from 1978 that has endured as one of the definitive feminist critiques of Hemingway.\xa0
Prof. Fetterley discusses protagonist Frederic Henry\u2019s self-pity and self-absorption, Catherine\u2019s obsequiousness, and Hemingway\u2019s design of the novel that leads Fetterley to conclude that Catherine \u201cdies because she is a woman.\u201d \xa0
We go on to discuss Hemingway\u2019s style, the theme of childbirth in Hemingway\u2019s work, and how Fetterley\u2019s feminist views in the 1970s apply to today\u2019s reader.\xa0 Join us for this special episode!\xa0