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 acclaimed novel composed by Ernest Hemingway. In this novel, Hemingway shows the world the tale about the incomparable Santiago, an old Cuban angler who battles for his respect and pride. In the basic exposition, â€Å"Hemingway’s Tragic Vision of Man,† Clinton S. Burhans, Jr composes that he and different creators have deciphered this novel, and he considers the accompanying focuses: courageous independence, reliance, and Christian subjects. I concur with Burhans’ paper. In the novel, Hemingway tends to the character of Santiago so appropriately that he moves these focuses without question. â€Å"He was an elderly person who angled alone in a rowboat in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish† (Hemingway 1): This is the manner by which the story starts. The elderly person had gone through just about a quarter of a year without finding anything, so the following day he decided and proposed to himself that he would take a major fish. That day he went far in the sea. In the first place, he feels that he needs to recover his misfortune by getting a major fish. He needs to demostra...