ABSTRACT
This chapter, dealing with To Have and Have Not, shows how Hemingway measures manhood in his portrayals of men belonging to both the strata — the upper middle class and the working class. Except the working-class Harry Morgan, all the other men of the upper middle class are portrayed as effetes. Hemingway also attempts to dissect the minds and hearts of three married female characters, different from each other and from different socio-economic statuses, all psychologically complex and drawn with sympathy. Hemingway also points at the lapses that may occur in a male writer’s perspective and reveals in fiction his own failures with women.
