Political Irony in To Have and Have Not

Abstract

This researchis a critical study of Ernest Hemingway’sTo Have and Have Notthat explores the socio-political issue based on the ironic gaps between expectation and fulfillment, pretense and facts, intention and action, the message sent and the message received, the way things are thought or ought to be and the way the things are. An art shows the contradiction between appearance and reality, particular and general, and immediate and conceptual. The struggle of Harry Morgan‘s authority embodies these qualities. Where there is always nostalgia for the harmony and beauty in Harry Morgan’s characterization but that harmony of life was lost forever.