O'Meally, Robert G. "The Rules of Magic: Hemingway as Ellison's Ancestor." _Southern Review_ 21 (July 1985): 751-769

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1. 751-752 O'Meally begins by denying Wright's paternity and establishing Faulkner's and Hemingway's
2. 752 O'Meally points out Ellison's self-proclaimed affinity for Hemingway over Wright
3. 753 Ellison compares Hemingway's use of understatement to loaded jazz phrases
4. 753-754 Unspoken "crisis of courage" and failure to identify scapegoat except for self, motivated Ellison to identify Hemingway's fiction as "jazz"
5. 754-755 Ellison finds "Negro" identity in Hemingway's iconoclastic heroes
6. 757 Ellison criticizes Hemingway for elaborating a personal style over addressing moral issues
7. 757 Ellison charges that Hemingway's writing mires the reader to not take up moral issues
8. 757-758 Quotes Warren on Hemingway and notes increasing syntactical complexity in Ellison's writing
9. 758-759 Ellison turns back to Hemingway as ambiguous moral arbiter
10. 759 What Ellison condemned as Hemingway's "morality of craftsmanship" he later (1957) exalts as reminder of literature's artifice, seductiveness
11. 760 Rationale for how craft has moral (and mortal) consequences
12. 760-761 Burke's "equipment for living" is different than desiring-machines and their production
13. 761 O'Meally compares narrator of Invisible Man to Hemingway's characters
14. 763 O'Meally discusses the nature of fighting in Invisible Man and the opposition between science and power (?)
15. 764-766 Mostly unconvincing analysis of bulls present in Invisible Man
16. 767 O'Meally compares encounter with Brotherhood (through metaphor of bullfight) with cyclical time
17. 769 Ellison embellishes upon Hemingway's style in Invisible Man

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