AnalyzingthecharactersintheOldManandtheSea.docVIP

Analyzing the characters in the Old Man and the Sea Abstract: The masterpiece—The Old Man and the Sea（1952）helped toward restoring Hemingway’s literary image，so that he won the Nobel Prize in 1954. It is a short novel, a fable of a kind, about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago and his battle with a great marlin. With no doubt, the old man桽antiago is the main hero of the novel. nHowever, there is also another miner important character in it; it is the old man’s best and faithful friend, Manolin. Though he is only a child, he helps Santiago a lot no matter in life or in fishing. To better understand the novel, it is necessary to know the two characters in it. So the paper is about the analysis of Manolin and Santiago. Key words: character, Manolin, Santiago 1. Introduction From the title, all that can be known of The Old Man and the Sea is revealed. Possibly Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring work of fiction, The Old Man and the Sea is a very simple, brief story of an old man, a Cuban fisherman named Santiago, whose life differs greatly from the lives of the young Americans who read about him today. Santiago is a poor, solitary man whose possessions consist of little more than the clothes he wears. But Santiago is rich in determination and perseverance, and he refuses to succumb to a streak of bad luck. When the novel opens, he has gone 84 days without catching a fish—without, in other words, success in making a living as a fisherman. On the 85th day, Santiago sets out to sea again—alone—and，after an enormous struggle，he catches the biggest marlin he has ever seen or imagined，only to have it destroyed by sharks. At the end of the story, Santiago’s material situation is no different than it was at the beginning. He is alone in his shack without having brought to shore a fish to sell at market. The only thing he gets is the wound or injuries he suffers in the process of catching fish and fighting with those sharks. But what a person he is on earth? How about his close f