Jealousy is a natural, human emotion that holds most of man kind captive. It drives the human mind to act upon envious impulses that lead to distress and sometimes disaster. Though most of humankind has a sense of self-control to recognize and overcome this, there are those that do not. This is just the case in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden. As Catherine Bourne struggles to cope with her confused sexual identity, she becomes uncontrollably jealous of her husband's prosperity as a novelist. Her envy ultimately leads to the destruction of her marriage with her husband, David.
Catherine's confusion with her sexual identity first develops when she decides to get a boyish style haircut. She explains to David, "You see, ...I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too and I can do anything and anything and anything" (15). Catherine believes that she possesses the ability to change sexes at any time. She sees that she is not entirely David's equal and attempts to remedy her insecurities by......

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Title: Jelousy
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