Essay Archive - Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea": An Analysis
Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea": An Analysis
Everyone has an arch enemy. Batman had the Joker, Superman had Lex
Luthor. But without their enemies, they would be unimportant, just like
anyone else. One could say that they needed their enemies, that their
enemies were almost friends. Similarly, The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest
Hemingway, is a love story about the relationship developed over the years
between a man and his lifelong friend and foe, the sea. Within the
following paragraphs, it will be proven that the man needed the sea, that
the two respe....
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