Yeah, I do wonder if in a different milieu Hemingway might have realized he was gay... or at least bi... or at least really intensely into other guys. But his main model for male-male attraction seems to have been "the guys who keep trying to sexually assault me," which... I can see why that would put him off!
Re: Hemingway turning on his mentors, I've never gotten over the fact that he wrote a brutal parody novel of one of Sherwood Anderson's books, and published it, after Anderson had been so helpful in Hemingway's early career. JFC Hemingway.
Yes, there's at least one scene with sexual assault in Down and Out. Orwell's in a shelter where the guys are locked up for the night two to a cell - WHAT were the shelter designers thinking, honestly, it's a situation ripe for abuse - and his cellmate attempts to assault him. Orwell fends him off and then they sit up the whole night talking because obviously Orwell's not going to sleep after THAT, and the guy ends up telling Orwell his whole life story.
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Date: 2020-12-01 05:16 pm (UTC)Re: Hemingway turning on his mentors, I've never gotten over the fact that he wrote a brutal parody novel of one of Sherwood Anderson's books, and published it, after Anderson had been so helpful in Hemingway's early career. JFC Hemingway.
Yes, there's at least one scene with sexual assault in Down and Out. Orwell's in a shelter where the guys are locked up for the night two to a cell - WHAT were the shelter designers thinking, honestly, it's a situation ripe for abuse - and his cellmate attempts to assault him. Orwell fends him off and then they sit up the whole night talking because obviously Orwell's not going to sleep after THAT, and the guy ends up telling Orwell his whole life story.