Dialogic Relationships And Incomplete Narrative In The Old Man And The Sea

Dialogism was from Russian linguist Mikhail M. Bakhtin. He defined dialogism as the relationship of "affirmative and supplement, question and answer, agreement and disagreement." This thesis introduces the dialogism and its applications to readers based on the analysis of Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, aiming to demonstrate how it could be applied to the analysis of the internal structures of the novel.This novel The Old Man and the Sea is popularly beloved and assigned reading for students in the US and around the world. Hemingway noticed the relationship between the language surface meaning and deep meaning. He omitted what he knew in his novel and left them to his readers to conjecture. This is a dialogic relationship between author and his readers. The author of this thesis applies Bakhtin's "incomplete narrative" theory to analyze Hemingway's omission in The Old Man and the Sea to reveal that how Hemingway constructed rich dialogic relationships in such a short novel.Application of dialogism to The Old Man and the Sea will confirm this theory in practice. It also can provide us with a new perspective to appreciate the narrative style and thoughts in a novel, and help readers to reach the ultimate target of a novel.