![]() ![]() ![]() The letter was reprinted in the collection “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”. Hemingway commented on the lack of intentional symbolism in “The Old Man and the Sea”. Quote Investigator: In September 1952 Ernest Hemingway sent a letter to Renaissance art specialist Bernard Berenson. Would you please help me to find a citation? He stated that “the old man is an old man”. Yet, Hemingway himself apparently believed that there were no symbols in his fable. Unsurprisingly, the story has been transformed into a cornucopia for symbol generation. Beleaguered high school students have been coerced into composing essays about the tale. Ernest Hemingway? Bernard Berenson? Apocryphal?ĭear Quote Investigator: Ernest Hemingway’s classic novella “The Old Man and the Sea” has been exhaustively analyzed by critics and commentators. ![]()
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