Unconscious…in an attempt to pull forth the great story from “he old fisherman figuratively sails the author's Great fish is symbolic of Hemingway’s quest to write a great novel. Hemingway had to write a great novel and Santiago’s quest to catch a Save their reputations, Santiago had to catch a great fish, and Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when Line, Hemingway had to prove himself again, and Santiago also felt that Long time between novels and his reputation as a great author on the Not writing a successful novel in ten years is similar to Santiago not His house is very simple with a bed, table, and chair on a dirt House further develops our view of Santiago as…unsuccessful…. Moreover, Elizondo points out: “The simplicity of Santiago's Hemingway writes: 'The sail was patched with flour sacksĪnd…it looked like the flag of permanent defeat' (9).

Illustrates how unsuccessful he is as a fisherman. The diction Hemingway uses to describe Santiago’s sail also “many of the fishermen…make fun of the old man…” (Hemingway 11). Regarded as a has-been, because he has gone “84 days…withoutĬatching a fish” (Hemingway 9). Santiago, the protagonist, was once a great fisherman, but now he is Published during Hemingway’s lifetime…” (557). The River and Into the Trees is the worst of the novels Publishing a novel, Across the River and Into the Trees was published, and it was aĪward-winning biographer James R. The 1920s and 1930s, but in 1950, after nearly ten years without Hemingway was one of the most prolific and successful writers of Hemingway had exhausted his store of ideas” (“Background”). Years in Hemingway's literary career…and people began to think that Old Man and the Sea was published in1952, after the bleakest ten Literary critic Sonny Elizondo agrees: “ The Many people thought Hemingway’s best days were behind him. The…metaphors…need almost no translation” (126). Is…an account of Hemingway’s personal struggle…to write hisīest…. Struggle as an author is similar to the protagonist’s struggle as a

Way, which is a result of Hemingway’s failed relationships with women, Furthermore, in this novel, women are portrayed in a negative Old Man and the Sea, and his loneliness is apparent in the First of all, The Old ManĪnd the Sea can be interpreted as an allegory of Hemingway’sĪddition, Hemingway was lonely when he wrote The It is obvious how Hemingway’s life influenced his writing. When The Old Man and the Sea is analyzed from a biographical perspective, The Old Man and the Sea continues this autobiographical tradition. Important events in Hemingway’s own life” (63). The stories…are very literal translations of some of the most Hemingway’s stories are either literally or figuratively based on hisĪ literary critic and authority on Ernest Hemingway, concurs: “Many of

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