Ernest HemingwayA Discussion and Analysis of one of his Major Works"The Old Man and the Sea"

The purpose of this research paper is to identify one particular writer who represents particular interest to myself, to which extent I shall identify one major work as well as a minor work by this author. Similarly, I shall include a biography of this author as well as some published criticism. To begin with, the author in question is Ernest Hemingway, and the primary work in question is The Old Man and the Sea. To begin with, I should like to identify a theme based upon The Old Man and the Sea. Man and the sea has had a long, intricate, profitable and sometimes contentious relationship for thousands of years. The history of man is irrevocably linked with that of the sea and, as man became more and more sophisticated, so did his relationship with the sea. The Old Man and the SeaA Summary and Overview The Old Man and the Sea is a story, in my view, about man vs. the elements, individuality, and one man's obsession to dominate his world. For Ernest Hemingway far more than for most men, the specter of age was a terrible specter indeed, a...