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 well known 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 article, 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, association, and Christian subjects. I concur with Burhans’ exposition. In the novel, Hemingway tends to the character of Santiago so appropriately that he motivates 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 way the story starts. The elderly person had gone through just about a quarter of a year without discovering 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. To start with, he feels that he needs to recover his misfortune by getting a major fish. He needs to demostra...