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             1937, gets his arm shot off. An unnamed alcoholic vet in the same novel
             confesses to the secret of how he can take so much punishment from constant
             beatings. It don't hurt, he says, Sometimes it feels good" (Hemingway's
             Masochism, Sodomy, And The, Dominant Woman). He also said that, "In To Have
             and Have Not, the hero is mortally wounded by gut shots. Though the
             description of the shootings in the novel contains overt sexual allusions,
             it provides two more examples of the penetrated male body and can be seen
             as metaphors for sodomy and masochism" (Richard Fantina, Hemingway's
             Masochism, Sodomy, And The, Dominant Woman).
             Hence, Ernest Hemingway has made sure to include all the essential
             elements in his novel to present to the audience a tale of a struggling man
             who gets involved in smuggling just to earn enough money to keep his family
             alive. The novel earned so much of recognition that it was soon transformed
             The story is written about the period during which the World Was II
             was taking place. The main character of the novel is Harry Morgan, a
             fishing boat captain who agrees to get involved in smuggling just to make
             enough money to feed his wife and daughter. As the novel opens the audience
             learns that Harry and his alcoholic sidekick named Eddy are situated on the
             island of Martinique. They along with their crewmembers are waiting to get
             hired. Since it was the time of war, their business was not doing very
             good. Harry Morgan and his crewmembers later tend to violate their
             conscience and their preferred neutrality after their customer who owes
             them a large some of money fails to pay them up. The captain decides to
             take up a job, which involved smuggling a fugitive on the run from the
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