A Modernist Quest for Martyrdom: Hemingway’s \u3cem\u3eThe Old Man and the Sea\u3c/em\u3e and T S Eliot’s \u3cem\u3eMurder in the Cathedral\u3c/em\u3e

Abstract

Compares Santiago to Eliot’s Becket, detailing the characters’ similar search for meaning and the Christlike imagery surrounding them