... guy who chooses to live his life by following a "code of honor, chivalry, honestly, and the ability to bear pain with resistance and dignity, and does not whine when defeated," (Scott, 217). The old fisherman Santiago from Old Man and the Sea and his perseverance to get back to shore after days of being on his small boat with no food ... abusing other people. His favorite insults for other men were accusations of impotence, sterility, and homosexuality. Hemingway himself was often accused of being queer. It is rumored that Zelda Fitzgerald said he and Scott Fitzgerald behaved like lover...

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• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School