SOURCE: Beegel, Susan F. “Santiago and the Eternal Feminine: Gendering La Mar in The Old Man and the Sea.” In Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice, edited by Lawrence R. Broer and Gloria Holland, pp. 131-156. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2002.
In the following essay, Beegel draws upon Catholic iconography, the work of environmentalist Rachel Carson and others, and the writings of Herman Melville to consider the ways in which the sea takes on a complex, gendered persona in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
This is a free excerpt of 90 words. There are 12,224 words (approx.
41 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our The Influence of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essay by Susan F. Beegel Access Pass.
