SOURCE: Bauer, Margaret Donovan. “Gilchrist's Composite Personality and Story Cycle: Transforming Ernest Hemingway.” In The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist, pp. 23-56. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.

In the following essay, Bauer contends that “the allusions to and parallels with works by Hemingway throughout Gilchrist's work reveal, in addition to Gilchrist's development of story cycles and composite personalities in the tradition of Hemingway, the deconstruction of the Hemingway hero.”

Re-vision—the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction—is for us more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

—Adrienne Rich, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision”

It was Ernest Hemingway's new book, and it had come from the book club the day she left North Carolina. She had been waiting for it to come for weeks. Now she opened it...