The notion that men and women have difficulty communicating is not new. What is new research, much of it from the 1970, which indicates that me and women miscommunication because they speak different languages. If Hemingway's male and female characters are each clearly gender marked speaking as traditional American men and women would be expected to speak then there are four distinct characters in the dyad of Jig and the American: Jig and the American as evaluated through the standard of traditional female gender-linked language patterns, jig and the American as evaluated through the standard of traditional male gender-linked language patterns