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  1. ‘The Sea Change’ is a 1931 short story by the American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Like a number of Hemingway’s other short stories, ‘The Sea Change’ deals elliptically with a taboo topic – here, bisexuality – through presenting (without fully explaining the back story) a conversation between a young couple in a café.

  2. The main point of the story is that the man does end up legitimately accepting his lover’s sexuality— indeed, he wants her to tell him about it when she returns. The story is far more about the change the man undergoes (The Sea Change) than it is about her sexuality, which was far from rare in Left Bank 20s Paris.

  3. Complete summary of Ernest Hemingway's The Sea Change. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Sea Change.

  4. “The Sea Change” testifies to Hemingway’s talent for creating a style whose devices (ellipsis, understatement, silences) deviate from traditional narrative techniques. The obliqueness of his writing is reflected in character, subject, and plot structure.

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  5. The Sea Change by Ernest Hemingway U. S. A. "All right," said the man. "What about it?" "No," said the girl, "I can't." "You mean you won't." "I can't," said the girl. "That's what I mean." "You mean that you won't." "All right," said the girl. "You have it your own way." "I don't have it my own way. I wish to God I did."

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  6. In this section, we will highlight the main elements of our analysis of Ernest Hemingways “The Sea Change”. The story follows a linear plot which is mostly concentrated in the main characters’ dialogue. The most important characters in the story are two young people, Phil and an unnamed girl.

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  8. A Sea of Change explores the importance of Hemingways relationship to the waters of the Gulf Stream that transformed his imaginative work.

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