The Old Man and the Sea | The Old Man and the Sea: Hemingway’s Tragic Vision of Man
In this excerpt, Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. explores the various levels of the novel, focusing on individualism and interdependence.
In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway uses an effective metaphor to describe the kind of prose he is trying to write: he explains that “if a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.”
Among all the works of Hemingway which illustrate this metaphor, none, I think, does so more...
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