"The earth abideth forever" : Hemingway's vegetation myths.

• Main Author: Woon, Samuel.
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52182
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, has been often regarded as being about the expatriate lost generation in a post-war Europe because of a remark attributed to Gertrude Stein in the epigraph. However, Hemingway explains “The point of the book to me was that the earth abideth forever...