... 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html