Overall, I wonder if the novel is this incomplete because although the film has the beginnings of some interesting additions to Hem's oeuvre, it ultimately doesn't amount to much. But this story has little to do with the frame story and doesn't give us any significant insight into David's character. It's Hemingway's fantasies about manhood expressed through hunting and domination over nature. It's doubtless that the story David writes - told in flashbacks starring Matthew Modine - is a mess. A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the uncompleted final novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently. But what Hemingway specifically says about this concept remains unclear. As Catherine transforms herself and her husband into carbon copies and as Catherine expresses her sexual obsession with Marita, it seems like Hemingway is exploring the slippery nature of sexuality - how one can experiment with one's sexual identity. From what I can tell from the film, it seems like a first draft - ideas that Papa plays with but hasn't developed into real characters yet. I haven't read the novel, but after the film, I want to. A writer and his wife take up with an Italian woman, and the three form an odd love triangle filled with lust and temptation.
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