[lit-ideas] Re: nameless celebrities?

... le deluge . . .

Ishmael in _Moby-Dick_ --"Call me Ishmael."; the Continental Op in=20
Dashiell Hammett (there are other nameless detectives, like the Old Man=20=

in the Corner of the late nineteenth century); the Man on the Bridge in=20=

Truong's _The Taste of Salt, identified on the back cover but nowhere=20
in the novel as Ho Chi Minh; M in James Bond; other Hemingway=20
characters like the older waiter and the younger waiter in "A Clean=20
Well-Lighted Place."

Harold Hungerford


On Feb 28, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Robert Paul wrote:

> In Hemingway's story 'The Cat in the Rain,' the central character (I'd
> say) is called only 'The American wife,' and later, 'The American=20
> girl.'
> The 'American husband,' as he is first referred to is later =
identified,
> but simply as 'George.' He is the only named character. Besides The
> American Wife, and George, there are the hotelkeeper and the maid.
>
> My apologies if I am clogging people's inboxes but . . .apr=E8s moi. . =
.
>
> Robert Paul
> Professor of Nameless Things
> Mutton Collge
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