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comment by tacocat

The old man needs the fish for money. But he's old and shouldn't be fishing anymore. He caught the fish because he's salty and determined but the sharks ate at it so he won't get the money he needs and he probably should have packed it in a while ago.

It's a lesser Hemingway that won a Nobel because he hadn't won a major award for deserving work like A Farewell to Arms. It kinda sucks.

Here, read "Hills Like White Elephants"

http://genius.com/Ernest-hemingway-hills-like-white-elephants-annotated





galen  ·  3466 days ago  ·  link  ·  
coffeesp00ns  ·  3466 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is this one also about abortion?

galen  ·  3466 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, satirically. (Clearly taco appreciated the original much more than I did.)

tacocat  ·  3466 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Very much so in a humorless way that destroys the tension of the original

lil  ·  3466 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm so glad someone wrote an antidote to the original story.

"Everything like White Elephants" should be required reading. Stampeding elephants and all.