ABSTRACT
Ernest Hemingway has been re-read, and his androgynous impulses which contradict his mythical Papa persona have been re-evaluated. Gender issues and sexual ambiguities have always been present in Hemingway’s work. Women and gender were Hemingway’s steady concern; his fictional females are drawn with the same kind of complexity and individuality like his fictional males. Women in his fiction manifest endurance, stoic courage and grace under pressure and are also bearers of the Hemingway code. Hemingway’s textual world resists patriarchal phallocratism, abolishes the binaries of masculinity/femininity, passivity/activity, independence/dependence, dominance/submissiveness, aggressiveness/meekness and the like, and thus dismantles binary oppositions involving gender and sexuality.
