The Inevitability of Decay: Disability in Ernest Hemingway\u27s The Old Man and the Sea

To many, Ernest Hemingway embodies a certain image of masculinity, one centered around ability and physical performance. Such a narrative ignores the truly complicated and dynamic shape his understanding of the body took. Through an analysis of Hemingway\u27s The Old Man and the Sea, I examine the form this ideology took in his later life, focusing particularly on Hemingway\u27s evolved understanding of the body. Through this research, a more nuanced picture of Hemingway emerges, one that recognizes the complicated and dynamic nature his view of the able body took