The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway uses personification to make the sea into a woman with varying moods. He does this in order to suggest that he has a personal and loving relationship with the sea, even though it is flawed. Find two such quotes.

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He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as el mar
which is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.

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The Old Man and the Sea