In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway depicts a simple but fascinating story of a fisherman who catches and loses a big fish after struggling for eight four days at sea. By means of text analysis, this paper aims to a...In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway depicts a simple but fascinating story of a fisherman who catches and loses a big fish after struggling for eight four days at sea. By means of text analysis, this paper aims to analyze the fiction in terms of its title, its main character, Santiago and its writing style—"the Iceberg Theory", thus draws the conclusion that beneath the story's simplicity lies in its greatness and sublimity.展开更多
文摘In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway depicts a simple but fascinating story of a fisherman who catches and loses a big fish after struggling for eight four days at sea. By means of text analysis, this paper aims to analyze the fiction in terms of its title, its main character, Santiago and its writing style—"the Iceberg Theory", thus draws the conclusion that beneath the story's simplicity lies in its greatness and sublimity.