I’ve read a few books of Hemingway and I noticed lines like this; “What is it that old writing fellow Shakespeare says:
"Might makes right"? Scripps thought of that quotation as the train went past him in the snowing darkness.”
I was wondering, do you think it was commonplace for common blue collar workers of the eras he writes about to casually recite Shakespeare or other poetry? Would they in their limited education have been pushed to read this kind of literature at an early age? Or was it just a case of Hemingway reflecting his own personal taste in his novels?
by ClayNorth7