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.