These facts show readers the process of fishing, which mostly comes from the author’s own eXPerience. From these facts, which are vivid, precise and terse, readers can learn a lot about how to catch a fish and can also feel as if they themselves were catching a fish. Then they will have the sense that what the author describes is real and believable. Therefore, as Kenneth Graham has said, many facts in the novel about fishing and about the sea have a double function: they satisfy people’s sense of the real word. And this is what underlies Hemingway’s famous statement that his intention was always to convey to the reader “the way it was.”22
All in all, Hemingway’s language in The Old Man and the Sea is simple and natural on the surface, but actually deliberate and artificial. “The language is rarely emotional. Rather, it controls emotions: it holds them in.”23 The forming of this distinct style is related to Hemingway’s own eXPerience. And the influence of this style is not only within America but also all over the world. The facts in the novel are selected and used as a device to make the fictional world accepted. Unlike other novelists who add allegorical meanings to their facts, Hemingway uses the facts simply and naturally, without any emotion. In the latter part of the novel, instead of being narrated by the author, the facts are used from inside Santiago’s own consciousness, and form part of a whole scheme of the novel. Besides what have been mentioned above, other techniques in The Old Man and the Sea, such as realism, monologue, the creation of suspense and so on, are also very successful. All these show Hemingway’s superb artistic attainments as a Nobel Prize winner.
Notes:
1. Kenneth Graham, “commentary” in York Notes: The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1991), p41
2. Chang Yaoxin, “Chapter 14” in A Survey of American Literature, (TianJin: Nankai University Press, 1987), p304
3. Mary A. Campbell, “Study Guide” in The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1998), p126
4. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1998), p8
5. Ibid, p83
6. Kenneth Graham, “commentary” in York Notes: The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1991), p42
7. Ibid, p45
8. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1998), p20
9. Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, (New York, 1932), p138
10. Times, 13 December 1954.
11. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1998), p2
12. Ibid, p1
13. Chang Yaoxin, “Chapter 14” in A Survey of American Literature, (TianJin: Nankai University Press, 1987), p295
14. A.E.Hotchner, Papa Hemingway, (New York: Random House, 1966), p1
15. Roger Asselineau, ed, “Hemingway’s English Reputation” in The Literary Reputation of Hemingway in Europe, (New York: New York University Press, 1965), p15
16. Ibid, p10
17. Chang Yaoxin, “Chapter 14” in A Survey of American Literature, (TianJin: Nankai University Press, 1987), p305
18. Kenneth Graham, “commentary” in York Notes: The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1991), p25
19. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1998), p79
20. Kenneth Graham, “commentary” in York Notes: The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1991), p29
21. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1998), p26
22. Kenneth Graham, “commentary” in York Notes: The Old Man and the Sea, (Beijing: world Publishing Corporation, 1991), p29
23. Peter B. High, “Chapter 11” in An Outline of American Literature, (New York: Long man Inc., 1986), p147
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