I finally got around to reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and yeah, I cried a little at the end. I didn’t think it was depressing though, just sad, realistic, and universal. Being bipolar, and disabled because I’m bipolar, and seeing my own struggles and defeats in life, seeing myself age, I come away from the novel feeling validated, and normal. But then, the author did end up killing himself with a shotgun and is said to have been bipolar himself. LOL.
There are a couple things that I thought were unusual or weird. Mostly the nail in the wood metaphor. It seemed to come out of nowhere, without context to the narrative. I know that this is not a new or original observation, but it’s the main flaw and maybe only real flaw in the story/novella, at least, for me.
