The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Hemingway’s Aged Characters as Symbols of Death

Document Type

Essay

Citation

Tianzhong, Deng. “Hemingway’s Aged Characters as Symbols of Death.” In Death in Literature, edited by Outi Hakola and Sari Kivisto, 103-19. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2014.

Annotation

Outlines the progression of Hemingway’s fictional portrayal of old age and its relationship to death over his lifetime. Identifies three distinct phases of this evolution: aged minor characters as symbols of death remote from youthful protagonists; aged minor characters as distorted and marginalized, but dignified; and aged characters as central protagonists who actively search for meaningful death. Treats The Sun Also Rises, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” “Old Man at the Bridge,” For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.

Published in

Death in Literature

Date

2014

Pages

103-119

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