Afterward, I knew I had enough material.  The next issue was organizing the argument.  Basically, the paper is constructed chronologically with the book:  the construction of the protagonist’s lost masculinity; the insertion of the quest to regain his masculinity; the conflict and the failure of the quest; and the final ironic epiphany.  I had all but the last point thought out before I began writing.  It took a few readings before I recognized the relationship between the old man dreaming of lions juxtaposed with the marlin mistaken as a shark.  Another difficulty I faced while writing this paper was where and how to define or as my professor said “unpack” the literary terminology.  Eventually I decided to explain the literary tools before I began the body of the paper. By defining the terms at the beginning, the analysis flowed with fewer interruptions.