Reading Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
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Reading Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

Glossary and Commentary

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eBook - ePub

Reading Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

Glossary and Commentary

About this book

The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning "fish story." But much lies beneath the surface. The action is condensed and presented in carefully crafted images, in words and details selected because of their multivalent meanings, and in several external narrative strands, present primarily as allusions and echoes.

The authors fish below the surface of The Old Man and the Sea to determine what is contained in Hemingway's allusions. They trace the development of symbols, amplify literary echoes, and contextualize the work's mythological, religious (including Afro-Cuban religion), and philosophical references. They examine the hybridity of genre in The Old Man and the Sea and engage multiple literary and critical methodologies.

Although the reputation of The Old Man and the Sea has waxed and waned, it has continued to be read by successive generations of students and literary scholars. This book is written for both audiences. Young readers will discover that surface details have depth and resonance; senior scholars will be challenged to apply new approaches.

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INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Aberdeen Bestiary, 77–78
Acevedo, Alejandro, 65
Achilles, xviii
Adams, Nick, 66, 118
Africa, x, 3, 29, 35, 38, 39, 58, 72, 118; dreams of, 37; smell of, 38
Afro-Cubans, ix, 12, 20, 55, 74, 76, 97, 100, 108, 109, 116, 117
Ahab, 73, 84, 89
allegory, Christian, 20, 80, 93
Almeida, Ismael Léon, xi, 61, 82–83, 92, 99, 105
American Big Game Fishing, 62, 66
American Indian (Native American), 11, 12, 59
Amfortas, 91
Andreson, Ole, 40
Anita (boat), xiv, xv, xvi, xxiii, 66
anthropomorphizing, 46, 49, 75, 100
Apostles, 26
Arion (poet), 65
arm wrestling, 79–80, 82
Ascension, 4, 97
Ashley, Lady Brett, 73, 89; Jake and, 99
ay, implications of, 104
Backman, Melvin, xxii, 69
Bahamas, 3
bait, 14, 50, 52, 63; seizing, 62, 65–66
bait fish, 10, 60, 61, 62
Baker, Carlos: Ernest Hemingway: Critiques of Four Major Novels, xxii; Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, xvi, 43, 64, 73, 84; Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, xxi, 16–17, 33, 38, 42, 52, 99, 111, 117; on Santiago, 117
Barbour, James, 31
Barnes, Jake, 7, 89; Brett and, 99
baseball, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 41, 363; Santiago and, 10, 23–24, 25, 31–32
Beach, Sylvia, 68
beaches, x, 110; lions on, 35, 37, 39, 94; whiteness and, 38
“Bear, The” (Faulkner), 11, 48; Boon, 93
Beard, Captain, 38, 42
Beegel, Susan: “Eye and Heart: Heming...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction to The Old Man and the Sea
  10. Abbreviations for the Works of Ernest Hemingway Used in This Book
  11. Series Note
  12. Pages 5 through 27
  13. Pages 28 through 43
  14. Pages 44 through 53
  15. Pages 54 through 77
  16. Pages 78 through 96
  17. Pages 97 through 106
  18. Pages 107 through 119
  19. Pages 120 through 127
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index