... style that had made him so famous over his career. The Old Man and the Sea is a story that tells of an old man, Santiago waging a great battle on his tiny boat with a large fish for many days. The story his told with grace and excellence. Malcolm Cowley notes that Hemingway "uses the oldest and shortest words, the simplest constructions, but gives them a new value-as if English were a strange language that he had ... is a parable, but one for life itself, and thus readers who search for other allegorical meaning inevitably reduce the grandeur of the text." This context was once brought ...

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