Part V: What the heck do I write about now
So, I think I finished all the requirements and now I have no clue what to write about. The Old Man and the Sea (OMatS) is basically a hundred page, one-act story. It's deep, definitely has layers, but I don't know if I can talk about this book anymore. Actually, I think I'll just do a quick review. That sounds pretty good. Out of ten, I'ma go ahead and give this book a well deserved four. My reasoning is pretty simple. Hemingway was a brilliant author (all-be-it an insecure, occasionally misogynistic author) with a lot of great works, and this one is INCREDIBLY overrated. I haven't read a ton of his works, but what I have beat out OMatS without a question. A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway's other-much-accredited novel, is a far better war novel than OMatS, for example. As I've noted in previous posts, OMatS can be read as a war story. The old man's struggle with the natural world is described much the same as a soldier's struggle and could be seen ...