Abstract
ABSTRACT This article investigates the ecocritical implications of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by analyzing the main character's paradoxical relationship to the non-human world. The novella's aged and therefore untypical Hemingway protagonist, Santiago, is a remarkably compassionate, unselfish, and likeable character. What makes him likeable is his unprejudiced openness to the world, his love for animals as well as for human beings, and his own self-interrogation. He perceives the creatures of the sea as his friends and brothers, but nevertheless he kills them. The article argues that though Santiago reveals a bourgeoning environmental consciousness quite modern for its time, he also represents the blind spots humans have concerning their relation to the non-human world.
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