God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

Annotates and comments, often line by line, on familiar and obscure details and allusions to the people, places, things, events, and other references found in the story. Opens with a discussion of the story\u27s publication history, critical reception, and relationship to other stories both in and outside the collection before moving into an explication beginning with the title and closing with the story\u27s final lines on Doctor Wilcox\u27s failure to recognize his part in the boy\u27s tragedy. Topics covered include Hemingway\u27s comparison of Kansas City with Constantinople, thematic treatment of misreading and Jewishness, and lesson on empathy