There isn't any symbolism [in The Old Man and the Sea]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit.Ernest HemingwayLetter to Bernard Berenson13th September 1952via idea.cc (author: happy)

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   There isn't any symbolism [in The Old Man and the Sea]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit.
   
   Ernest Hemingway
   Letter to Bernard Berenson
   13th September 1952
   
   via idea.cc (author: happy)