Belarbi, Radjaa2016-09-222016-09-222016-09-22https://dspace.univ-tlemcen.dz/handle/112/8934Masterful writers use literary devices and strategies exceptionally to represent their dominance and mastery in writing . In American writing, Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and The Sea is a precious symbolic novel which reflects the ability of the writer to employ images and symbols in order to give an artistic quality of the content.The target of this research paper is to explore the images used as part of the novel and to decode these symbols as well as distinguish the different interpretations that they stand for.enAmerican literature , Symbols, The Old Man and The Sea , Ernest Hemingway , symbolismThesis