A Review of The Old Man and The Sea: Hemingway’s Tragic Vision of Man

The Old Man and the Sea is whizz of the most famous novel written by Ernest Hemingway. In this novel, Hemingway shows the field the story about the great Santiago, an old Cuban fisher composition who fights for his find and pride. In the critical essay, Hemingways Tragic Vision of Man, Clinton S. Burhans, Jr writes that he and opposite authors have interpreted this novel, and he takes into account the following points heroic individualism, interdependence, and Christian themes. I agree with Burhans essay. In the novel, Hemingway addresses the character of Santiago so mighty that he inspires these points without doubt. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four age now without taking a fish (Hemingway 1) This is how the story begins. The old man had spent almost three months without catching anything, so the next solar day he made up his mind and proposed to himself that he would take a big fish. That day he went far in th e ocean. In the beginning, he feels that he has to redeem his bad luck by catching a big fish. He wants to demostra...