I thoroughly enjoyed last Friday's discussion over Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River." I was especially enlightened when Scott posed the possibility of Nick Adams being gay. I thought that this could definitely be the case.
I originally read the line about Hopkins giving his gun away and thought it said that Nick gave Hopkins his gun and then never heard from him again, so I thought this meant Hopkins had committed suicide. I didn't think much else about the matter. After being corrected, I see the multitude of possibilities for this character and his relationship to Nick, and he obviously played an important role in his life if he was one of the only people Nick reminisced about during his trek into nature.
One scene in particular is when he's talking about their argument over how to make coffee the right way. Hemingway says Nick laughs at it, but he makes the coffee Hopkins' way, rather than his own. Why would he do that? I think it was a sentimental action, one that brought him closer to this person he obviously cared so much about.
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