"He's an old man, fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream, and now it's his eighty-fourth day, and he hasn't hit a single fish." "Eighty-five is an auspicious number." In ridicule and sympathy, on this day, the old man sailed out to sea with confidence. Sure enough, the old man caught a big fish, more than 1500 pounds, like a large boat larger than a small boat. After three sunrises, he finally overcame it. I didn't think that on the way back, I was attacked by sharks three times, and the old man picked up the knife and rudder again...
Unlike the pessimism and nihilism in Farewell, Weapon, the novel is imbued with a confident, optimistic, tenacious and tenacious heroic spirit. Hemingway borrowed the protagonist's words and said: "Human beings are not born to be defeated, a person can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated." ”
The novel adopts a third-person perspective, and the main storyline has only one character, which is easy to be dull and boring. Hemingway cleverly used the protagonist's self-talk and psychological language to make the whole story vivid. In fact, the old man is talking to himself, and he is also saying it to the reader to see and listen.
If it weren't for this narrative, the work would hardly have been a novel. Perhaps he likes to portray characters with dialogue too much, even if there is no object, Hemingway will let the characters talk to himself.
Like "Farewell, Weapon", the ending seems to be very plain but has a deep meaning. What is the image of the "lion"? The novel begins with this description: "The lions on the beach, they frolick in the mist like cats, he loves them as much as this little boy." Is it a symbol of life and the future?
"In a Foreign Land" depicts a major who was wounded on the battlefield and had just lost his wife. He advised me: "A man should never get married." "Because" will definitely be lost. "It's too hard to forget the pain."
The ending is grim.
"A Day of Waiting" is Hemingway's rare and laughable novel.
The child is sick, thinks he can't do it, and "waits for death all day." Finally, I learned that I had mistaken the measurement method of the thermometer. The child's reaction is vividly described.
"The Land of Clarity" is a philosophical novel that expresses the nothingness of life.
The Short, Beautiful Life of Francis McComber is a satirical allegorical novel about the married life of a couple who are at odds with each other:
McComb went hunting in Africa, and on his first day of hunting lions, he was despised by his wife out of fear. At night, the wife cheated on the hunter. The next day, in order to prove himself, he went to capture the bison, but was shot and killed by his wife.
Hunter Wilson observes all this calmly, as if he were a prophet: "The worst man will take your life." ”
The novel is cold and chilling.
"Mountains Like White Elephants" describes the delicate and lingering beautiful feelings of a pair of lovers:
"Just put in some air and it's all the way it goes." In the end, I didn't understand what the girl was going to do.
The Snow of Kilimanjaro cannot be called a novel in the strict sense of the word. One wounded hunter considered himself on the verge of death and "tried to keep himself alive by destroying everything." "Past experiences appear intermittently in the mind, empty, messy, decadent, and make full use of stream-of-consciousness writing.