[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 51 KB, 300x456, TheOldManAndTheSea.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4152299 No.4152299 [Reply] [Original]

What was the meaning of the lions?

>> No.4152311

hemmingway preferred truthions

>> No.4152335

>>4152299


they are a reference to whatever pre-socratic you know least about.

>> No.4152363

>>4152299
read this a while ago and only faintly remember anything about lions, can someone refresh my memory?

>> No.4152370

>>4152363
The old man went to Africa in his youth where he saw a lot of lions. So now the old man dreams about lions a lot.

>> No.4152373

>>4152335
haha

>> No.4152921

I think it means you can't escape your own nature and the old man was as much a fisher man as a lion is a lion.

>> No.4152927

'I don't believe in symbols' - Hemingway

>> No.4152933

Lions are known as being one of the most prideful animals
Santiago is also very prideful in a way
The dream serves as reinforcement for him to keep his pride
when he dreams of them at the end of the book its reassurance that he hasn't lost his pride

>> No.4153338

>>4152311
kill yourself

>> No.4153353

>>4152370
ahh yeah, very reminiscent of that other hemingway story about the dude who went lion hunting and pussed out and the lion guy boned his wife, i'm pretty sure they symbolize masculinity like everything else hemingway does, but no for real i remember the line about them playing on the gold coast as he sailed by or somesuch, i think it's just a bit of history and characterization as much as hemingway just liking lions

>> No.4153403

>>4152299
>What was the meaning of the lions?
There was no meaning. You're a pleb, and so was Hemminngwayy.

>> No.4153434

>>4153403
>In Schrunz, on Christmas day, the snow was so bright it hurt your eyes when you looked out from the Weinstube and saw every one coming home from church. That was where they walked up the sleigh-smoothed urine-yellowed road along the river with the steep pine hills, skis heavy on the shoulder, and where they ran down the glacier above the Madlenerhaus, the snow as smooth to see as cake frosting and as light as powder and he remembered the noiseless rush the speed made as you dropped down like a bird.

If being a pleb like Hemmingway means I can go all the places mentioned in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (except the war parts) then sure why not.