also began to lose interest in portraying in realistic ways the domestic life that most men and women lead. His ability to write from the woman’s point of view, as in the stories “Up in Michigan,” “Cat in the Rain,” and “The End of Something,” disappeared almost completely after 1927, the year he divorced Hadley. His writing grew increasingly “hobbled,” as John Updike wrote, by “a narrow stoic universe,” where the hero “always acts right and looks good” and the heroine exists simply to satisfy his needs.
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