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This paper aims to study and analyze influence on America literature through a comparative study of symbolism, similarities, and differences in the works of Hawthorne and Hemingway. Hawthorne’s symbolic technique was an attempt to escape from the restraint’s that his predecessors built in their literature work and tried to show the conflict of the human condition through symbols such as the church, death, darkness, numbers, crucifixes, etc. We can also observe the way Hemingway did not proclaim that he was personally a Christian in public, however, his piety was ingrained from his parents, and portrayed Christianity acutely all of his works of literature, and especially to the main character, Santiago, in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. We can observe the way Hawthorne used characters’ names and objects to symbolize ideas in the representative work ‘The Scarlet Letter’, the way Hemingway shows symbolism in all of his work. Readers of their work can easily and plainly find signs of Christian symbolism.