The Old Man and the Sea
One of the most outspoken critics of "The Old Man and the Sea" is Robert P. Weeks. His 1962 piece "Fakery in "The Old Man and the Sea"" presents his argument that the novel is a weak and unexpected divergence from the typical, realistic Hemingway (referring to the rest of Hemingway's body of work as "earlier glories"). In juxtaposing this novel against Hemingway's previous works, Weeks contends: