actually, obviously, exactly, literally, basically, essentially, technically

[Honest]

I’ve wanted to read the old man and the sea after finding that Hemingway said this about it:
“There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit.”