海明威被国内的文学研究者归类为象征主义作家,《老人与海》作为海明威的巅峰之作,在象征手法的运用上可谓是匠心独运。一部作品的流传需要作者用心去思考、积淀、书写、删改,而后成册,正如金胜叹点评《水浒传》时说道:“古人著书,每每若干年布想,若干年储材,又复若干年经营点窜,而后得脱于稿,裒然成为一书也。”海明威是幸运的,从其第一部作品《太阳照常升起》问世就受到了文艺界的广泛 Hemingway was classified as a symbolist writer by domestic literary researchers. As the pinnacle of Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea” can be said to have great imagination in the operation of symbolism. The spread of a work requires the author’s intentions to think, accumulate, write, delete changes, and then into a book, just as Jin Sheng sigh commented << Water Margin >> said: ’The ancients of the book, often a few years cloth, a few years of storage, A few years operating channeling, and then get off the draft, suddenly became a book also. “Hemingway is lucky, from its first work” The Sun Also Rises "come out by the literary and art circles wide