Just "a Boy" or "Already a Man?": Manolin s Age in The Old Man and the Sea

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C. Harold Hurley

Hemingway s Debt to Baseball in The Old Man and the Sea: A Collection of Critical Readings, pp.95-101

1992

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Title: Just "a Boy" or "Already a Man?": Manolin s Age in The Old Man and the Sea
Author/Creator: C. Harold Hurley
Publication Details: Hemingway s Debt to Baseball in The Old Man and the Sea: A Collection of Critical Readings, pp.95-101
Annotation: Argues against the common critical assumption that Manolin is a teenager, on the verge of adulthood. Hurley maintains that an exchange between Santiago and Manolin regarding Sisler s father sets Manolin s age at about ten years old.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015136392503691