Comparing and Contrasting Ernest Hemingways genres of work

The Old Man and the Sea is a short fictional story consisting of 127 pages . The story was published in 1952 and was written in Cuba . The short story was based on Santiago an old Cuban fisherman who fights with a giant marlin faraway into the Gulf Stream . The Old Man and the Sea was the last fictional work by Ernest Hemingway . This short story is a very important twentieth century tale . Because of the success of the short story Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway was chosen for the Nobel Prize

in Literature in 1954

In contrast to The Old Man and the Sea , The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is a collection of writings also by Ernest Hemingway The collection includes the full length play of Hemingway . The play is based on an American main character by the name of Philip Rawlings . He is a secret agent for the second Spanish Republic . However , due to its poor publication when it was received , the other collection of writings overpowered this particular play . The play , The Fifth Column , was written during the Spanish Civil War

When reading The Old Man and the Sea , it is important for the reader to focus on the speech in the novella that the author is using in to completely understand Hemingway 's purpose in the book . Hemingway uses language as a way to create a realistic picture of the characters that are in the story . When the old man sits...