6/9/2023 0 Comments The sun also rises novel![]() ![]() ![]() Probing the political, social, and cultural contexts that would affect a Spaniard living in a former colony, this study examines Santiago’s foreignness in the novella to establish how the protagonist’s ethnic and national otherness affects his actions and sense of self in Cuba.Īny scholar of twentieth-century art, letters, and history existentialism and the (post)modern travel and travel writing and migrant aesthetics and the shaping effects of place on the individual will be drawn to Ernest Hemingway like a moth to a streetlamp. Santiago’s “eyes the same color as the sea” (10) mark his otherness in a conspicuous and unchangeable way, setting him apart from the impoverished mulatto fishing community, and linking him to European exploitation of the island nation. This origin, with its attendant national and cultural differences, makes Santiago an outsider in the Cuban fishing village of Cojímar and is a principal motivation in his actions. As the author explains in a letter to Lillian Ross,“The Old Man was born a catholic in the island of Lanza Rota in the Canary Islands” (SL 807). In The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Hemingway employs the perspective of a Spaniard in Cuba to broaden the scope of the narrative. In several of ernest hemingway’s novels, the main character’s expatriation is a principal rhetorical device and a theme which critics often neglect. ![]()
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