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{{byline| last=Plath |first=James |abstract=An analysis of the influence of Hemingway on Norman Mailer’s ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' It is Mailer and D.J.’s adoption of the Hipster mind-set and way of talking that sets them apart from others, even more so than the hunter’s code of honor. And being an insider—someone who knows what the outside world can only imagine—is perhaps the most crucial element of ''aficion'', as Hemingway detailed it. |url=. . .}} | {{byline| last=Plath |first=James |abstract=An analysis of the influence of Hemingway on Norman Mailer’s ''Why Are We in Vietnam?{{sfn|Mailer|1967}}''It is Mailer and D.J.’s adoption of the Hipster mind-set and way of talking that sets them apart from others, even more so than the hunter’s code of honor. And being an insider—someone who knows what the outside world can only imagine—is perhaps the most crucial element of ''aficion'', as Hemingway detailed it. |url=. . .}} | ||
{{dc|dc=I|n ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' Norman Mailer alludes}} to James Joyce twice (126, 149), and certainly his 1967 anti-war novel has a Joycean feel. It incorporates the same sort of monologic stream-of-consciousness narrative and | {{dc|dc=I|n ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' Norman Mailer alludes}} to James Joyce twice (126, 149), and certainly his 1967 anti-war novel has a Joycean feel. It incorporates the same sort of monologic stream-of-consciousness narrative and | ||