Hemingway's Iceberg Theory is a writing technique where the deeper meaning of a story is not explicitly stated but is implied through ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea, ...

But this old man was once a young buck who spent his 30’s at 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Fla., where, it’s said, his love of deep-sea diving spawned much of his greatest work.