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ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND NORMAN MAILER BOTH WROTE fiction and journalisms that deal with what I am calling here the “Reds.” In Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and in Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost and Oswald’s Tale Reds or communists of different types, stripes, and nationalities appear in various significant roles and guises. There are several questions I would like to address, especially the following: What is it that attracted Hemingway and Mailer to write about the Reds? Even if they depict very different historical periods, can we still discern certain commonalities in their approaches to and treatment of the Reds? Further, what is the dominant image of them in the works of Hemingway and Mailer?