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"Popular Mechanics:" A Lack Of Compromise, Kelly Bledsoe
"Popular Mechanics:" A Lack Of Compromise, Kelly Bledsoe
The Corinthian
Meeting someone halfway, negotiating, and making an equal exchange are components of compromise. The art of compromise is not observed in Raymond Carver's short-story, "Popular Mechanics."
War As A Focal Metaphor In The Sun Also Rises And Catch-22, Lee Ogletree
War As A Focal Metaphor In The Sun Also Rises And Catch-22, Lee Ogletree
The Corinthian
Ernest Hemingway and Joseph Heller are linked to one another in fascinating ways, for both authors achieved their greatest acclaim upon publication of their first major novel, works written during and about the respective postwar eras each author found himself in after directly participating in the war effort years earlier. One of the more interesting aspects of the abundant literary criticism devoted to Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Heller's Catch-22, concerns critical opinion regarding the authors' treatments of war in their most celebrated novels. While it is generally agreed that neither novel is "about war" per se (a …