One aspect of Hemingway's technique is somewhat over-worked in [Lee Smith's Something in the Wind, a yarn] about an eighteen year old girl on the loose as a freshman in college: even though the girl herself is the narrator and all manner of events affect her, readers are given few insights into her own character, her thinking, or her motivations. All we are really aware of is her meticulously cultivated approach to life, one that dissociates her from reality and permits her to regard herself as a separate being, thus able to participate in an action without personal involvement including endless copulations with a succession of strangers. If the heroine's intellectual solution to the problems of living in a contemporary world is marked by considerable vacuity, at least her methods are marked by abandon, despair, vengeance, and a subconscious wish to play Delilah to all men and symbolically...