User talk:Ken64

There is an error/confusion in the wording of the Wiki entry on Ernest Hemingway.

In the second paragraph under "Themes," the current sentence reads

"According to Rena Sanderson, early Hemingway critics lauded his male-centric world of masculine pursuits, and the fiction divided women into 'castrators or love-slaves'". The citation is to Endnote 193.

The current sentence seems to say that “according to Rena Sanderson. . . the fiction divided women into ‘castrators or love-slaves’".  But this is NOT Sanderson’s view—-it is the view of Hemingway’s early critics.

(This error was pointed out to me by Rena Sanderson herself, and I volunteered to ask Wikipedia to fix it)

What Sanderson actually wrote is this:

“It became common for critics to divide his fictional women into either castrators or love-slaves…” (Cambridge Companion to Hemingway, p. 171)

I therefore propose this replacement sentence to convey what Sanderson actually says:

According to Rena Sanderson, early Hemingway critics lauded his male-centric world of masculine pursuits and typically divided his fictional women into "castrators or love-slaves".

Thanks for your consideration. Richard K. Sanderson ("Ken64") Ken64 (talk) 20:35, 12 May 2016 (UTC)