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Hemingway
The Sea Change
"The Sea Change" takes place in a bar. The woman is breaking off her relationship with her husband in order to be with a woman. Although her sexuality is never explicitly mentioned, there are many different ways that it is shown in the text.
Queer content hints in "The Sea Change"
The girl wore a tweed suit...
"I'll kill her," he said.
"Please don't," the girl said...
"I will. I swear to God I will."
"It won't make you happy."
"Couldn't you have gotten into something else? Couldn't you have gotten into some other jam?"
"It seems not,"
"If it was a man-"
" Don't say that. It wouldn't be a man."
"You're a fine man and it breaks my heart to go off and leave you."
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"Couldn't you be good to me and let me go?" the girl asked.
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