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Hemingway's portrayal of Santiago's relationship with the sea in The Old Man and the Sea is one of friendship, as Santiago sees the sea as his life purpose and only friend. Santiago embodies Hemingway's ideals of masculinity by being strong, fearless, and persevering through defeat as a skilled but unlucky fisherman. While Santiago lacks material success, he demonstrates moral success through his indefatigable spirit in continuing to fish despite losses. Santiago's greatest strength, his pride, drives him to go further than any other fisherman to catch the marlin, but this same pride ultimately leads to his downfall when the marlin is lost.

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Prose Analysis

Hemingway's portrayal of Santiago's relationship with the sea in The Old Man and the Sea is one of friendship, as Santiago sees the sea as his life purpose and only friend. Santiago embodies Hemingway's ideals of masculinity by being strong, fearless, and persevering through defeat as a skilled but unlucky fisherman. While Santiago lacks material success, he demonstrates moral success through his indefatigable spirit in continuing to fish despite losses. Santiago's greatest strength, his pride, drives him to go further than any other fisherman to catch the marlin, but this same pride ultimately leads to his downfall when the marlin is lost.

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PROSE ANALYSIS

Answer the following questions. You may put some quotations from the text to support
your argument.

1. Describe Hemingway's portrayal of Santiago's relationship with the sea.


Answer: Hemingway's portrayal the relationship between Santiago and the sea like
friends. As a fisherman, Santiago considers the sea as a friend and his life where the sea
giving his purpose life and the only friend who supports him, provides money and food.
it's an extension of his soul. Whereas others may look upon the sea as an object of the
natural world to be exploited for its riches, Santiago is joined to the shimmering blue by
an almost mystical bond. He belongs to the sea as much as it belongs to him.
2. Is Santiago a prideful man? Explain.
Answer: In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway's treatment of pride is ambiguous. A
hero like Santiago should be proud of his acts and of himself as Santiago like he shows us
in the story "humility was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride" Santiago's
pride, on the other hand, seems to be pushing him to go dangerously far out into the sea.
Santiago admits to killing the marlin for pride, his blood aroused by fighting with such a
noble and honorable adversary, even though he cherished him and named him brother.
The loss of the marlin has been viewed by others as the price Santiago had to pay for his
pride in going so far in search of such a fish. In the contrary, this ego may have been
useful in that it provided Santiago with an educational task worthy of his heroism.
Finally, Hemingway suggests that confidence in a job well done is a good attribute, even
though pride dragged one excessively into the case.
3. How does Santiago embody Hemingway's ideals for manhood?
Answer: In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway exemplifies the manhood through
Santiago, he skilled but unlucky fisherman who spends a few days alone at sea, hauling
in the biggest catch of his life. Hemingway holds a very traditional perspective of
manhood and masculinity in The Old Man and the Sea. A man is expected to be strong,
fearless and tough, and to persevere in the presence of defeat, which Santiago does
despite his age and the pain he struggles with.
4. In your opinion, is Santiago successful as a fisherman?
Answer: Hemingway distinguishes between two forms of achievement: material success
on the outside and moral success on the inside. Although Santiago evidently lacks the
former, his ownership of the latter overshadows his lack of the former. Santiago's story
can be defined as a victory of indefatigable spirit over finite material resources. As
previously said, the characteristics of such a spirit are heroism and manhood. Santiago's
ability to finish the story unbeaten after losing his most treasured possession on a regular
basis is a testament to the importance of inner achievement over outer success.
5. Discuss Santiago's obsession with being a worthy adversary for the marlin.
Answer: One must constantly demonstrate one's heroism and manliness through actions
conducted with dignity. Interestingly, worthiness cannot be conferred upon oneself.
Santiago is obsessed with proving his worthiness to those around him. He had to prove
himself to the boy: "the thousand times he had proved it mean nothing. Now he was
proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he
was doing it". And he had to prove himself to the marlin: "I'll kill him....in all his
greatness and glory. Although it is unjust. But I will show him what a man can do and
what a man endures" . A heroic and manly life is not, then, one of inner peace and self-
sufficiency; it requires constant demonstration of one's worthiness through noble action.
6. Santiago is considered by many readers to be a tragic hero, in that his greatest strength—
his pride—leads to his eventual downfall. Explain.
Answer: Santiago's situation is bleak. He'd gone eighty-four days without catching a
trout, and his little village was laughing at him. Regardless of his experience, the old man
was eager to turn his life around and sail further than he or the other fishermen had ever
gone before. Her pride is her dedication to sailing to where the big fish testify. Santiago
punishes himself for his stupidity after the shark kills the bounty marlin, saying that it has
harmed both Marlin and himself. Santiago's pride, on the other hand, has helped him to
do things he otherwise would not have been able to. Her abilities as a fisherman were put
to the ultimate test when she faced and fought Marlin. In other words, the same pride that
contributed to his quarry's ruin also helped him win the admiration of the village
fishermen and the boy's beloved friendship.

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