2014年6月6日金曜日

The Old Man and the Sea: Hemingway's dream?

Today(actually yesterday), I finished reading The Old Man and the Sea
As I read to the end of the story, I could understand the merit of it. 

If I wrote this kind of story, I would write it as what is called a success story, but Hemingway didn't.
The old man in actually couldn't leave almost anything from the sea, but he could be appreciated by surrounding people and could feel the boy and other peoples' love for him.

But I think this end conflicts with Hemingway's real life. In the last class, we learned background, biography, and bias of this story, and I saw one picture that Hemingway is in with a big fish, with a proud look. 
Assuming that the old man in this story reflects his true heart, maybe he wanted just love, rather than fame, in reality. 
I also learned that many ways of love is expressed in this story. 
I wonder he wanted to express true form of love in it, that he could not get in the real life.

3 件のコメント:

  1. Hi,I wonder if you couldn't sleep enough last night. I know it take a lot of time to finish our homework, but take it easy!

    That's great!!
    I have not finished reading it yet...but I agree with your opinion.
    I'd like to read the rest of this book with thinking more deeply.

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  2. If he had been a successful person, he would have not write any book like that... To me, the novel reflects what he wrote the novel in his life.

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  3. I really like your interpretation of the ending. I would have to say that you drew some interesting connections there - in the Hemingway photos we always see him as the "show off" hunter but rarely do we see him with the same pride standing next to any one of his wives. Santiago's coming back with a skeletal fish seems to speaks of the vanity of such big game prized trophies. Could H be talking about the vanity of chasing fame versus nurturing a long lasting love in a single woman? Whenever someone breaks up in a love relationship, friends tend to use the old tired cliché "There's so many fish in the sea". Yet, every "fish" H ever had in his life don't survive.

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