Abstract
Y study of biblical allusions, themes, and symbols in American novels has been a source of incredulity, amusement, consternation, and term papers among some of my students. When I suggest that Hemingway in his The Old Man and the Sea and the Gospel according to Mark are similar in their conceptions of victory through suffering, students cluck in derision, chuckle in amusement, or run to the library for a copy of the Old Man. Actually, however, some contemporary American novels lend themselves to an analysis of thematic materials which are similar
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