![]() ![]() As such, his last completed work of fiction was a triumph over his critics, who had basically declared him finished as a novelist. Much like the old man in the book, Hemingway found himself looking back on his early successes while finding it ever harder to repeat them. The work of an aging author, The Old Man and the Sea focuses on the realities of growing old and the desire to remain vital and relevant. It’s the need to go to sleep at the end of a harrowing ordeal with the simple idea that tomorrow you’ll get up and try again. ![]() ![]() Survival isn’t simply a Darwinian struggle to determine the fittest, but a need to persevere despite challenges and setbacks: to rise to the occasion but also accept that events can turn a success into a failure. Stripping out the complications of modern life, Hemingway presents a story of one man’s timeless struggle both with and against the elements. The old man, his boat, the admiring boy, the sea, a few clouds, two or three fish, a few birds, the great marlin and finally the sharks – those are the ingredients of this famous novella. ![]()
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