Political Irony in To Have and Have Not
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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.