TOWARD THE END OF To Have and Have Not, as the narrative pans across Key West's yacht basin-past the quarrelling homosexuals, past the impotent old industrialist, and past the innocent, dull, rich family and the wandering Estonians-we eventually find ourselves in the mind of the "extraordinarily pretty" Dorothy Hollis. Hemingway's choice of the last name "Hollis" for Dorothy is the tip of a little iceberg-at once an inside joke, a sign of Hemingway's deteriorating relationship with his second wife, Pauline, and a bitterly ironic commentary on one of the novel's most important themes: the plight of one man-or one woman-alone. In Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Dorothy Hollis is more than just another lonely, sexually troubled soul among the "haves" in Key West's yacht basin.
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