Ernest Hemingway’s Pen Name and Catherine Bourne’s Alternate Personality were both called “Peter”

In the April 21, 2014 post, it was noted that Hemingway had once used the pen name “Peter Jackson.”

In the April 24, 2014 post, it was noted that, in The Garden of Eden, Catherine Bourne’s male alternate personality was named “Peter.”

In reading The Garden of Eden, it had seemed peculiar to me that Catherine’s male alternate personality, although a recurrent presence in the novel, was never again referred to by its name, “Peter.”

Evidently, Hemingway realized that using “Peter” was too personally revealing. But he didn’t get around to changing or deleting that single use of it. Or his alternate personality insisted that his name appear at least once.

In any case, that double use of the name “Peter” suggests the possibility that the character Catherine Bourne was based on [or written by] Hemingway’s alternate personality, Peter Jackson.

But I wouldn’t want to speculate on the details of how that worked.