When Santiago's palms are first cut by his fishing line, the reader cannot help but think of Christ suffering his stigmata. Later, when the sharks arrive, Hemingway portrays the old man as a crucified martyr, saying that he makes a noise similar to that of a man having nails driven through his hands.
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A renovated and expanded 18th century Federalist mansion houses the Newburyport Public Library. In the period of the Revolutionary War it was the most notable mansion of Newburyport, owned by the Traceys, the leading family of the times.