The Price of Satire
This extended essay explores Sherwood Anderson’s novel Dark Laughter (1925) and Ernest Hemingway’s satire of that book, The Torrents of Spring (1926). In 1921—while an unknown writer in Chicago—Hemingway met Anderson, who inspired him to move to Paris. Frustrated by critics making comparisons between his early stories and Anderson’s short works, Hemingway wrote Torrents to sever his ties with Anderson, who thus became Ernest’s first victim in a pattern of making and breaking friendships on the way to international fame.
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