An unrealistic novel[edit] Ernest Hemingway and Henry (Mike) Strater with the remaining 500 lbs of an estimated 1000 lb marlin that was half-eaten by sharks before it could be landed in the Bahamas in 1935. See Pilar for details of this episode. One of the most outspoken critics of The Old Man and the Sea is Robert P. Weeks. His 1962 piece Fakery in The Old Man and the Sea presents his claim that the novel is a weak and unexpected divergence from the typical, realistic Hemingway (referring to the rest of Hemingways body of work as earlier glories).[20] In juxtaposing this novel against Hemingways previous works, Weeks contends: The difference, however, in the effectiveness with which Hemingway employs this characteristic device in his best work and in The Old Man and the Sea is illuminating. The work of fiction in which Hemingway devoted the most attention to natural objects, The Old Man and the Sea, is pieced out with an extraordinary quantity of fakery, extraordinary because one would expect to find no inexactness, no romanticizing of natural objects in a writer who loathed W.H. Hudson, could not read Thoreau, deplored Melvilles rhetoric in Moby Dick, and who was himself criticized by other writers, notably Faulkner, for his devotion to the facts and his unwillingness to invent.[20] Some critics suggest The Old Man and the Sea was Hemingways reaction towards the criticism of his most recent work, Across the River and into the Trees.[21] The negative reviews for Across the River and into the Trees distressed him, and may have been a catalyst to his writing of The Old Man and the Sea.
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