The Old Man and the Sea: Ocean Writing and Spatial 
Narrative

Zizi Feng

doi:10.70711/rcha.v3i4.7282

The Old Man and the Sea: Ocean Writing and Spatial Narrative

Zizi Feng

Abstract

The Old Man and the Sea, as a classic work of Hemingway which won the Nobel Prize in Literature, is the masterpiece of him in
his later years. Many scholars discuss the sea which as the juxtaposition of the old man in the title of the novel from the ecological thought
expressed by it. There is no doubt that Hemingway really wants to highlight his thoughts on environmental protection through the description
of the sea, but the author believes that Hemingway uses a lot of space to describe the ocean landscape, and wants to express more than that.
This paper relies on the spatial narrative as the framework to explain how Hemingway achieves his unconscious desire to the ocean by writing
about the ocean space.

Keywords

The Old Man and the Sea; Spatial narrative; Perceptual unconsciousness

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/rcha.v3i4.7282

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