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Harry Johnston

Harry Johnston, a senior figure at the Toronto Daily Star, is not, by any means, a central character in the text. However, one action of his can be considered key to the text – it is Johnston that first hires Callaghan for the Toronto Daily Star in the absence of Harry Hindmarsh. Therefore, without Johnston’s input, Callaghan may never have met Hemingway and the story may never have occurred.

Johnston took a gamble hiring Callaghan, and it paid off, Hindmarsh was pleased with Callaghan’s appointment as a reporter. While Johnston gives Callaghan his first opportunity to write professionally, he does not feature again after Chapter 2.

From the following Voyant chart, which attempts to compare the extent of the roles played by Hindmarsh and Johnston, we can perhaps deduce that Hindmarsh and Johnston had similar levels of influence over the text as a whole. You can find the section on Harry Hindmarsh here.

WORKS CITED

Callaghan, Morley. 1963. That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. Available at: http://fitzgerald.narod.ru/bio/callaghan-thatsum.html