Reception Across the River and into the Trees
—ernest hemingway critical reception to across river , trees. according baker, hemingway  wounded negative reviews  of novel. furthermore, baker explains hemingway unaware close him agreed majority of critics. example, wife mary, disapproved of across river , trees, said:  kept mouth shut. nobody had appointed me husband s editor. generally novel considered better critical reviews received upon publication. baker compares shakespeare s winter s tale, or tempest: not major work, 1  elegiac  tone. meyers believes novel shows new  confessional mode  in hemingway s work, ,  have been hailed more impressive if had been written hemingway.  stoltzfus agrees, , believes hemingway s structure more comprehensible modern reader—exposed nouveau roman—than of mid-20th century.