Reflect on-The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway.Assume that David Bourne is a stand-in for Hemingway himself. Both are writers. Both are struggling to write. Hemingway, in the guise of David, has another part to himself, called “Catherine.” Think of David and Catherine as two competing aspects of one character, and that character is Hemingway himself, the writer. Reflect on–tell me what you think about–the writer’s struggle. This is an entirely “up to you” type of prompt: You can think about the struggle as having to do with gender identity and/or sexuality. You certainly could also think about how the struggle is with writing as such–that is, Catherine does not have to be the “female” or the “gay” or the “queer” aspect of Heminway, but could be the “anti-writer,” that is, the counterpoint to David’s writer identity. In this case, you would think about David-Catherine as a hybrid or composite identity FOR and OF Hemingway and therefore FOR and OF the writer and even writing itself. Think of writing and being a writer as a struggle: it’s not easy.
