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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is set in Cuba in the middle of the twentieth century. The setting is a small village. There are several reasons why setting is important. First, the narrative depends on...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago despises the Portuguese man o' war. The turtles eat these jellyfish, "filaments and all," and this is one of the main reasons he likes the turtles. As an older man who still prides himself...
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The Old Man and the Sea
At first glance, Santiago in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea appears to be a loser. After all, at the beginning of the story he has not caught a fish for a great deal of time, and by the...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago is an old man, and certainly not in the best shape. He ventured too far out into the sea and managed to catch a huge marlin. The marlin is strong, but it is caught with Santiago's hook...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is a short novel that Hemingway wrote in 1951 and that was first published in 1952. The work is written in the third person, using Hemingway's...
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The Old Man and the Sea
During the course of the short narrative of The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway sets up Santiago as a dignified and humble individual who heroically strives against great odds. Though the...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago is an elderly fisherman. Although he is skilled, experienced, and patient, he has not caught a fish for 85 days. He owns his own small skiff and works as a freelance fisherman, being paid...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is set in Cuba in the mid-twentieth century. Santiago is a poor and elderly fisherman. He is independent, owning his own boat and selling his catch to earn money, rather...
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The Old Man and the Sea
This important quote from Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize winning novella The Old Man and the Sea is a crucial component in the story for a number of reasons. First, this quote comes when...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In The Old Man and the Sea, external conflict can be a literary device for your central idea. The external conflict is between Santiago and the giant marlin. You could argue the subjectivity of the...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Fishing is a profession taken very seriously in The Old Man and the Sea. The old man, Santiago, and his friend Manolin, a young boy, live in a fishing village with many other fishermen, some more...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago dreams of the lions that played on the beaches of Africa, where he once visited after going on a sailing ship years ago. When he was much younger and saw the lions cavorting and wrestling...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago mentions the New York Yankees of the American League; however, he also alludes to a couple of other teams. The old fisherman, Santiago, who has gone without catching anything for...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Modernism was a movement in art and literature during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was marked by a drive to break with traditional styles and closely linked to the realism movement....
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The Old Man and the Sea
As a novel, The Old Man and the Sea is preoccupied with questions of age, mortality, strength, and change. Santiago, the fisherman, is an elderly man whose physical health and luck are...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In the book of Genesis in the Old Testament, the metaphor of human beings going from dust to dust appears: "By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago has a working relationship with his hooks. Mostly, they are utilitarian and a cause for joy when he succeeds in catching a good haul. He uses them to get food in more than one way; at one...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago and Manolin share a mentor/mentee relationship. Mandolin is Santiago's former apprentice, not his son. He used to work under Santiago, but Manolin's father made him stop and go work for...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway uses a simile to compare the shark to a pig racing to its food trough. A simile is a figure of speech that uses “like” or “as” to compare two things that are not alike. The use...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago had a strong respect for nature. He had learned to read natural signs to help him with his fishing. He followed the birds in the sky and the smaller fish of the sea to locate his big...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Age and experience dictates much of the behavior of both the young fishermen in this story and the old fishermen. The young fishermen are making fun of Santiago because they see his 84-day streak...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Great question. The two types of ideas you will be seeing here come respectively from Christianity/Biblical thought and from major-league baseball. The numbers 84, 7, and 3 are each significant in...
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The Old Man and the Sea
One could easily argue that the novel is about man against himself because Santiago faces great internal conflict. He is an old, weak, and not a very strong man (at least by the looks of him!). He...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The story of The Old Man and the Sea begins by giving us the setting. Santiago fishes alone in the Gulf Stream and has been very unsuccessful for the past 84 days. The fact that we are given a...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago experiences many internal and external conflicts during his struggle with the marlin. The obvious external struggle is the struggle for life and death as he fights to catch the marlin. One...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The theme of suffering and how that impacts manhood is prevalent in The Old Man and the Sea. Santiago has very definite ideas of what suffering should be to a man. The story shows different types...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is narrated in third person, but the narrator focuses primarily on the thoughts and actions of the old man, Santiago. One of the first things we learn about him is his...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago has been battling this marlin in the heat of the day for a while now. He is tired and beginning to get weak from the fight. He needs to harpoon the fish and get it off his line, but a head...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize winning novella The Old Man and the Sea is the harrowing story of Santiago, an old man who faces an epic battle with a giant marlin. Hemingway foregrounds...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Manolin and Santiago have a loving, mutually respectful relationship. Manolin, the boy, has fished with Santiago since he was five years old. Santiago taught him everything and more about fishing,...
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The Old Man and the Sea
While Santiago was unfortunate enough to lose his harpoon after stabbing the mako shark, he manages to create a new spear by tying his knife to the boat's oar. Later, the blade of the knife snaps...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novella The Old Man and the Sea perfectly encapsulates many of the tropes of Hemingway’s singular prose style. The strengths of the novella include the...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Resolution in this context means "a firm decision to do or not to do something." As Santiago thinks about all of the possible actions of the marlin, he is preparing himself for a battle. He knows...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In the story of the Old Man and the Sea, Santiago the old fisherman used the hook and harpoon technique to fish for marlins. The technique entailed attaching the fishing lines to a hook. Baits...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea is the quintessential Hemingway work that informs the reader of the definitive Code Hero. This Code Hero can be used as the prototype against...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago mentions God many times throughout The Old Man and the Sea in the context of "Thank God," "God knows" or "God help me." Santiago is not a religious man, although whether he means that he...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Manolin, Santiago's young friend, says, “You must get well fast for there is much that I can learn and you can teach me everything." After Santiago returns from the sea after several days of...
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The Old Man and the Sea
On the 84th day without catching any fish, Santiago sets out once again. He and Manolin, his young friend, walk to the docks to set out separately. Here, in the very beginning of the book, is where...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago attributes his failure to bring in a whole fish to going out too far to find a fish initially. Several days before this point, Santiago had left the docks on his 85th day without catching...
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The Old Man and the Sea
There is an old, Cuban fisherman who is in a terrible slump. He has not caught a fish in eighty-four days. He used to take a boy, Manolin, with him, but Manolin's parents directed Manolin to...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In The Old Man And The Sea, the marlin symbolizes pride, honor, courage, resourcefulness and endurance. In the story, Santiago relates a time when he caught a female marlin. He states that the male...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway consistently uses personification to illustrate Santiago’s intimate bond with the natural world. More specifically, Hemingway supplies Santiago’s...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Perico: He is the owner of the bodega. He is never actually seen in the story, but he provides newspapers for Santiago. Santiago likes the papers because they report baseball scores. Martin:...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novella The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway presents the story of Santiago, an old fisherman who has a battle of wills with a giant marlin. Santiago...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway describes an episode in the life of the fisherman Santiago and his apprentice Manolin. Santiago has gone 85 days without catching a fish. He finally...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The plot of the narrative in The Old Man and the Sea can be summarized very briefly; however, taking note of the details of the plot will be helpful in understanding the meaning(s) of the text....
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The Old Man and the Sea
"But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Both the message of William Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech and the theme of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea emphasize the necessity and importance of man's endurance that will allow him to...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Unlike any of Hemingway's other protagonists, Santiago of The Old Man and the Sea begins the narrative as a code hero, rather than becoming one. As such, then, he provides the perfect model for the...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway uses what Walker Gibson, in "Tough, Sweet, & Stuffy: An Essay on Modern American Prose Styles," calls a "plain" or "tough" style. Hemingway was notorious for "tough talk" as an...