![]() While I was doing my Hemingway reading the film version of his The Old Man and the Sea appeared. I was under his influence and he even gave me the impetus and courage to break out of an artificial “respect” for elders taught me in childhood. ![]() I do recall that after writing analyses of each novel and the chosen stories, then surveying a significant parcel of secondary sources, I wrote some sort of critical paean to Ernest Hemingway as stylist. ![]() I no longer have that paper, nor even remember my central argument. I then adored Hemingway’s work, and wrote a paper which I recall was quite pleasing to my professor. I chose to write on the novels and (at least) some of the short stories of Ernest Hemingway. As part of the requirement for a minor I wrote a major paper at the end. ![]() I don’t think I have ever before written an introduction to my comments on a book! More than 45 years ago I minored in English literature (majoring in philosophy). See at bottom for comments of an internet reader. NY: Charles Schribner’s Sons, 1995 from the 1929 original ![]()
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