Tracking the Elephant: David’s African Childhood in Hemingway’s \u3cem\u3eThe Garden of Eden\u3c/em\u3e

Opens with an exploration of literary sources for Hemingway’s elephant hunt episode. Focuses on the intersecting motifs of empathy and childhood within both the novel and the elephant story to illuminate David’s capacity for feeling and the dynamics of his relationship with Catherine. Concludes that the elephant story is about “empathy and the role of empathy in the writing process.