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Originally Posted by gmw
That Hemingway wrote so close to his own life is one of the things I find slightly disturbing about his work: always begging the question is that really the way he saw the people/things around him?
I certainly don't find this any more of stretch than some of the other things that have been drawn from the story in this thread so far - although I read this scene as intending to humanise the marlin: if they bond like this then they are creatures we can relate to. I did wonder if the reader was supposed to think that maybe this new catch was that earlier male, returned to fulfil his fate next to that his mate (or some such allegorical rubbish - whoops! Oh dear, my cynicism slipped  ). |
I think that just might be a bit too much of a stretch!
I do agree with you about Hemingway’s view of the world being rather disturbing, but he was by no means extraordinary - and I fear still is not. Lots of he-men out there at the moment in Australia, blasting waterfowl out of the skies, including of course many native species which are vulnerable and supposed to be protected.