Critical Reception
Hemingway received a mixed reaction to the novella that was sharply critical of other writers. The work is generally dismissed by critics and seen as vastly less important than The Sun Also Rises, published in the same year. His wife Hadley believed the characterization of Anderson was "nasty"; Dos Passos considered it funny but didn't want to see it published; while Fitzgerald considered the novella a masterpiece. The Torrents of Spring has little scholarly criticism as it is considered to be of less importance than Hemingway's subsequent work.
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