3/5

just a mini-review for this one:
i don't think this is a work of literary fiction so much as a fable. the lack of characterization, simplicity and what my senior year english teacher would call "hit-you-over-the-head symbolism" made me think that. because of how simple and easy it was, i didn't love it. i like puzzling through themes and symbols and motifs. (it's the english major in me.)

this was also way too rime of the ancient mariner for me, and i just finished discussing that poem for the second time in a class on wednesday. man kills a beautiful figure of nature for no reason and then is punished by nature? hmm.

anyway, the themes of it were still nice and i do like hemingway's manner of writing. i didn't hate this, it was just eh.