The old fisherman Santiago is Hemingway shaping the last one tragic hero, but also shaped his life, a tough guy character concluded. Poverty, without luck old fisherman Santiago's fate is sad, but he also said he is a failed hero, "playing the undefeated losers," Hemingway's character, like Pac Man-like clank Ying Hanzi dependent on santee Diego on the characters, this is Hemingway-style "Ying Hanzi" a symbol of the spirit, he cares not intentionally or unintentionally, whether consciously or unconsciously or anyone else involved, all as of Hemingway's "iceberg principle" a strong expression.
Santiago is a "Gulf Stream alone in a boat on the fishing inside the old man." Life and years of torment for the elderly, so that he was "the cohesion of a deep neck wrinkles, looked thin, gaunt," "every part of the body looks old," now, but his eyes, "the same as with the sea-blue, happy, not depressed. " Works of a beginning, the old man just in time "unlucky (that is the unfortunate image of a worst-case word)." 84, exactly 84 days, he did not even catch a fish, which is a fisherman a fisherman, that would really be unfortunate, but the. Even with him a long time, a child, also had left him in the 84th days.
The tragic fate of the old fisherman was Ernest Hemingway's own experiences in the artistic reflection refractive index. Hemingway has been involved in two world wars and the Spanish war, people are not waking up from the nightmare of world war, disillusionment, disappointment, and so many confused and puzzled for people. The post-war society is a chaos, depressed the scene, war and social phenomena of all kinds of absurd to Hemingway's, both mental and physical trauma brought about a deep, can be described as Nine Lives. This is why the old fisherman Santiago hoary one of the manifestations. In addition, we found that from 1940, "Whom the Bell Tolls" after a full decade Hemingway did not say anything important works published in 1950, "to cross the river into the forest" has been consistent criticism of public opinion, "many critics even asserted that Hemingway's talent has been depleted, no more nothing new in "[vii]. This situation is beginning Santiago for the elderly a similar situation to how the elderly back of the movement, consecutive 84 days to fight any fish, when he sat Beach Hotel, around the fisherman is making fun of him or placing him sympathy.
Santiago in order to prove that he is a "weird old man," or in order to prove that he has the strong courage and perseverance in order to complete their own at that time only the other people have not