ve and subjective point of view. In a sense Hemingway is twice removed from the emotional turmoil at the center of the story, (pg. 72). It is through this novel that Hemingway escaped his pain.Finally, his most famous work, The Old Man and the Sea gives a glimpse into Hemingway the older man. After he moved to Florida with Pauline, he took up fishing as a hobby and became quite good at it. This is the story of a man named Santiago who is running low on luck. He has not caught a fish in about 40 days and he goes out to sea in hopes of catching something to prove to his one single friend, Manolin, that he still has luck. Out to sea the old man spots a huge marlin and manages to capture it, but sharks follow a trail of blood left by the fish and they come to eat the marlin remains. The old man tries his hardest to fight the sharks off but they wont stop until they have eaten the entire marlin. Near death, the old man fights until he has no more fight left in him. The sharks devour everything including the marlin bones, the old man heads back in-land returning home with the same thing he left with, nothing. Hemingway is questioning why human beings (himself in particular) try to go against nature. He is making a statement by saying that people put themselves in horrible situations because of they have too much pride. This novel does not reflect upon Hemingway as easily as the previous two. One can only assume that Hemingway is nearing the end of his life and he feels guilty somehow for not being the perfect son, husband, or father. He has a quote that he used in Farewell to Arms that sums up his attitude. He says There are some things which cannot be learned quicklythey are the very simplest things, and because it takes a mans life to know them the little new that each man gets is very costly (cocoa pg. 3). The Old Man and the Sea was Hemingways last major work before he committed suicide. He left behind a ton of negative sp...
