Metaphoric Implications Of The Return Of David Bourne's Masculine Consciousness

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) has long been known for his stoic, understated"masculine"style and his graphic description of male pursuit, attitude, virility and camaraderie in his writing. Many of Hemingway's other fictions in larger post-World War I social and cultural background challenge to masculinity, including the emasculating effects of modern war upon its male participants and its postwar residue of alienation from the society that sent forth men to be slaughtered, wounded, or helplessly immobilized included resentment against mothers, wives, and lovers who would never understand what it felt like to be unmanned. Hemingway also explored differences between different gender roles in some of his works such as The Garden of Eden.This essay tries to analyze David Bourne, the protagonist of The Garden of Eden, from the perspective of gender to explore what role gender plays in society and in people's lives, and how individuals act under certain gender roles. Through the analysis of David's gender identifying, we find that people are living in a gendered society, which is one of the major factors that affects relationship among people, relationship between individuals and society. Understanding gender role and identifying one's own gender role benefits each individual and society.The main body of this essay consists of three parts. Chapter one analyzes the process and the reasons of David Bourne's loss of masculine consciousness. Chapter two focuses on how David's masculine consciousness comes back. Chapter three deals with what is behind the return of his masculine consciousness under the theory of gender, presented by Julia T. Wood who is the writer of the book Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture which is ranked highly as a textbook in many universities.