This event greatly affected him to the point that he continues to recur the lively moments in his head: "Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. Where did the old, ambitious sea-lover originally get his confidence? This confidence was possibly spawned from his sighting of "lions on the beaches in the evening" (Hemingway 21) in Africa. His pity for his brother turns into a lesson for the old fisherman, who finally understands where his ability lies. In the three stages of Santiago's sea-journey, his heap of confidence led him on an expedition that caused him to end in an apparent failure when his brother, a fish, is mauled to death by sharks. Surely the question of whether Santiago went too far out or not is debatable, but the more reasonable stance is that he did, in fact, go too far. A well-articulated question can be whether the protagonist went too far on his quest through the blue waters. Resource type: this resource is about Emotions.Įrnest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea is a novel that illustrates the story of an old, nature-lover named Santiago and his grueling, three-day trip out into the open sea.
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