A Review of The Old Man and The Sea: Hemingway’s Tragic Vision of Man

The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most famous novel written by Ernest Hemingway. In this novel, Hemingway shows the world the story about the great Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who fights for his honor and pride. In the fine essay, Hemingways Tragic Vision of Man, Clinton S. Burhans, Jr writes that he and other authors have interpret this novel, and he takes into account the following points heroic individualism, interdependence, and Christian themes. I hit with Burhans essay. In the novel, Hemingway addresses the character of Santiago so properly that he inspires these points without doubt. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the disjunction Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish (Hemingway 1) This is how the story begins. The old man had spent almost three months without catching anything, so the next day he do up his mind and proposed to himself that he would take a big fish. That day he went far in the ocean. In the b eginning, he feels that he has to make unnecessary his bad luck by catching a big fish. He wants to demostra...