... it underwater for every part that shows. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story. The Old Man and the Sea could have been over a thousand pages long and had every character in the village in it and all the processes of how they made ... womanhood. Without these values to rely on, their existence became aimless, meaningless and unfulfilling. It is these men and women that Hemingway portrays in Fiesta. Before the novel opens, Hemingway quotes Stein as well as a Biblical passage. The passage contrasts the t...

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