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- Title
From the Playground to the Fishing Ground: Re-evaluating the Influence of Baseball on The Old Man and the Sea.
- Authors
Mandal, Sanatan
- Abstract
Baseball as a sport contributes much to represent American culture and life. The playground of baseball provides the basis where Americans can dream and fulfill their aim. Gradually, the baseball becomes an integral part of American literature. Earnest Hemingway, the noted American novelist uses the playground of baseball in context of Cuban fisherman Santiago's struggle to catch the big marlin. Thus baseball becomes the vitality of culture represented by literature. This paper aims to examine the influences of baseball on the novel The Old Man and the Sea, both thematically and structurally. The paper also tries to show how Hemingway's true baseball hero Dimaggio becomes the only inspiration for Santiago.
- Subjects
BASEBALL tournaments; AMERICAN literature; OLD Man &; the Sea, The (Book); PLAYGROUNDS; PLAY environments
- Publication
Language in India, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 3, p388
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article