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A window on the prey: the hunter sees a human face in Hemingway's "After the Storm" and Melville's "The Grand Armada." (Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville)

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From: The Hemingway Review
Date: 19940922
Author:Philbrick, Nathaniel

Ernest Hemingway's short story 'After the Storm' may have been inspired in part by the chapter titled 'The Grand Armada' in Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick.' Both episodes share a similar plot structure and confront their characters with a version of the realities of death, life and nature. Hemingway's version of this confrontation places human life in the dog-eat-dog world of nature as a whole, making people just another part of the food chain, while Melville more philosophically ponders the highly-valued human characteristics found in nature. Other sources for Hemingway's story are discussed.

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