HEMINGWAY
![Black and white photo of Ernest Hemingway sitting on a boat](https://newmexicohumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FBBlog-Hemingway.jpg)
By Michael Privett
“For me, the Hemingway work that stuck was The Old Man and The Sea. I was stunned at its raw emotion, specifically Hemingway’s ability to depict a man fiercely at war with the natural world. I struggled with the symbolism; was the fish really a fish, or a metaphor? Did the boy represent the hubris of youth and the Old Man, God?”