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The Inevitability Of Decay: Disability In Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, Dominic Robin
The Inevitability Of Decay: Disability In Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, Dominic Robin
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With his suicide in 1961, Ernest Hemingway seemingly cemented into place his legacy as the classic image of the able-bodied, masculine man; he was, to many, the anti-disability writer, the author who lived for ability, lost ability, and took his life once he realized no chance of regaining his ability existed. Such a narrative, however, ignores the truly complicated and dynamic shape his understanding of the body took. Through an analysis of The Old Man and the Sea, I examine the form this ideology of ability took at the end of his life when, like the novella’s protagonist, Santiago ...