ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hemingway had initially planned to use Santiago’s story, which became The Old Man and the Sea, as part of a larger work, which he referred to as “The Sea Book.” Some aspects of it did appear in the posthumously published Islands in the Stream.

Detailed explanation-2: -Endurance is a running theme throughout Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea. Santiago, the protagonist, displays remarkable physical and mental endurance. He endures the long stretches without fish. Partly he does this out of necessity, since fishing is his life.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1930s, Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, and later in Cuba, and his years of experience fishing the Gulf Stream and the Caribbean provided an essential background for the vivid descriptions of the fisherman’s craft in The Old Man and the Sea.

Detailed explanation-4: -Old Man at the Bridge Title The title of the story ‘Old Man at the Bridge’ is very appropriate because the story revolves around the old man who has left his hometown during the Spanish Civil War and has arrived at the bridge for safety. It is at the bridge that the narrator engages the old man in conversation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hemingway’s debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926. He divorced Richardson in 1927, and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), which he covered as a journalist and which was the basis for his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).