Pauline Pfeiffer's Safari Journal and Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

Abstract

Abstract:This essay speculates about how Hemingway may have used his wife Pauline's journal kept on their 1933–34 safari when he was writing "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." It also demonstrates how the journal may illuminate Hemingway's intentions for the story in terms of aesthetics and gender politics.