Modern Critical Interpretations

Ernest Hemingway's THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University

CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS Philadelphia Contents

Editor's Note vii

Introduction 1

Review of The Old Man and the Sea 5 William Faulkner

The Boy and the Lions 7 Carlos Baker

The Heroic Impulse in The Old Man and the Sea 13 Leo Gurko

The Old Man and the Sea and the American Dream 21 Delmore Schwartz

Confiteor Hominem: Ernest Hemingway's Religion of Man 27 Joseph Waldmeir

The Later Hemingway 3 5 Nemi D'Agostino

The Old Man and the Sea: Hemingway's Tragic Vision of Man 45 Clinton S. Burhans Jr.

Fakery in The Old Man and the Sea 53 Robert P. Weeks

Hemingway's Extended Vision: The Old Man and the Sea 61 Bickford Sylvester vi CONTENTS

The Old Man and the Sea: Vision/Revision 73 Philip Young

New World, Old Myths 81 Claire Rosenfield

Hemingway's Craft in The Old Man and the Sea 95 Sheldon Norman Grebstein

The Poem of Santiago and Manolin 105 Linda W. Wagner

Incarnation and Redemption in The Old Man and the Sea 119 G.R. Wilson Jr.

The Later Fiction: Hemingway and the Aesthetics of Failure 125 James H. Justus

A Not-So-Strange Old Man: The Old Man and the Sea 141 Gerry Brenner

Contrasts in Form: Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and Faulkner's 'The Bear' 153 David Timms

The Cuban Context of The Old Man and the Sea 165 Bickford Sylvester

Chronology 185

Contributors 189

Bibliography 193

Acknowledgments 195

Index 199