You cannot compare one to the other....Moby Dick is epic...historical...in the ways of whaling...mr. melville was brilliant if you ask me...he had a complex view of his world, and his philosophical inquiry into the nature of good and evil in Moby Dick is spell binding...beside this is where I got an interest in Architeuthis..the giant squid...the worlds most elusive sea creature...I even had a mind meld with a small version in Chicago once at the aquarium there. Don't matter what anybody says...I knew that it had a brain...I could tell by the way it was looking at me..thats why I could never eat squid...nope never!!
Now the old man and sea...well anybody who fishes knows that story...many people have different interpertations to its meaning...but I like what the writer himself said
There isn't any symbolism. 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. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know."
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
It is one of the best fishing stories tho
Now the old man and sea...well anybody who fishes knows that story...many people have different interpertations to its meaning...but I like what the writer himself said
There isn't any symbolism. 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. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know."
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
It is one of the best fishing stories tho