View Santiago The Old Man And The Sea Drawing Pics. Santiago is a fisherman lives in a village. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway.
Santiago refers to the sea as a woman, and the sea seems to represent the feminine complement to santiago's masculinity. Santiago tells manolin that on the next day, he will venture far out into the gulf stream, north of cuba in the straits of florida to fish, confident that his unlucky streak is near its end. However, santiago's exhausting effort goes for naught.
The old man is lonely, he wishes he were with the boy.
The old man and the sea is a short novel written by the american author ernest hemingway in 1951 in cayo blanco (cuba), and published in 1952. He catches an enormous marlin and struggles for several days to bring it to shore. Santiago suffers terribly throughout the old man and the sea. Incredibly poor, he sleeps in a shack and sets out each day on a small skiff to try to catch himself some fish to eat or sell.