The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is about an old man Santiago who finds himself many months without having caught any fish. Sailing very far out, the old man hooks a big fish and engages in a multi-day struggle to land it.
In reading the first half of The Old Man and the Sea, I find myself challenged by my prior reading experiences with Hemingway to read for Modernist themes of nihilism conveyed through Hemingway’s abrupt prose. Even allowing for varying typography and formatting, one can see without even reading that not a single paragraph in The Old Man and the Sea occupies more than 1/4 of a page, a visual indication that opposing are constantly shifting throughout the novella.
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