Linda Patterson Miller, Thesis Supervisor Bonnie Joy Levinthal, Thesis Honors Advisor
Keywords:
Hemingway Cezanne
Abstract:
Hemingway said that he was greatly influenced by the paintings of Paul Cezanne, but he never elaborated further. There have been analyses of Cezanne’s paintings and Hemingway’s landscapes but no one has discussed the psychological impact that these paintings may have had on him and what they may have ‘said’ to him that he conveyed in his writing. I decided to try to fill in this gap by looking at Hemingway’s In Our Time stories and the Cezanne paintings that he saw while writing them. By drawing comparisons between the works’ perspectives, colors, techniques and overall feel, my thesis explains how the two were remarkably similar.
