This analysis is the beginning of a conversation
designed to illustrate the asexual individual when heteronormative ideals suggest otherwise. It
starts here, no longer silent or passive about the stereotypes that asexuality faces in the literary
world.
In each of the following chapters of this project, the various facets of asexuality will
begin with a detailed description and illustration of nonsexual behavior as it combats allosexual
expectation in a literary context. Woven into the subsections of each chapter will be the literary
analyses of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Alan Dale’s A Marriage Below Zero, Mary
Eleanor Wilkins Freeman’s short story “Two Friends”, and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening,
supporting the chapters with illustrations of the asexual behavior provided by each independent
literary classic.
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