The Writing Background of The Old Man and the Sea

The novel The Old Man and the Sea is based on a true story. After World War II, Hemingway moved to Cuba and met an old fisherman, gregorio fuentes. 1930, Hemingway was killed in a storm, and fuentes rescued Hemingway. From then on, Hemingway and fuentes forged a deep friendship and often went fishing together.

1936, fuentes caught a big fish in the open sea, but because it was too big, it dragged on the sea for a long time, and as a result, it was attacked by a shark on the way home, leaving only a skeleton when it came back. The Old Man and the Sea was written from this.

The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman fighting a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream far from the coast. It established Hemingway's prominent position in world literature, and this novel won the Pulitzer Prize in the United States and the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1954.

The old man in the extended information, the old man in San Diego and the sea, were finally dragged to the coast by a huge fish skeleton after three days of exhausted sea struggle. In fact, the old man is the winner who gets nothing. And in the future, people can't believe that this exhausted old man can overcome the raging sea.

In Hemingway's view, life is a war that can't be won, just like the old man's "old sail repaired with many flour bags looks like a flag that will never fail." But the old man never stopped acting. It is a kind of pursuit in the face of great sadness, death and failure, which is also tenacious and persistent.

The whole time of the novel is very tight, only four days before and after: the day before going out to sea, with the old man's return from the sea as the introduction, people around him appear one by one and explain their relationship with the old man: Manorine, a child who loves him and learns to fish with him; A group of fishermen who respect him but can never understand him; A hotel owner who cares about him.

Old people live in such a personality group. By contrast, he is obviously different from others. He is an optimistic, open-minded, experienced, confident, hardworking, brave, adventurous, simple and passionate Cuban fisherman. At the same time, this spoke structure can also produce clear clues, focused centers and concise stories.

About the author: ernest miller hemingway (1899 July 21-1961July 2) is an American novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. 1899 July 2 1 was born in a rubber garden town on the outskirts of Chicago. 1926, the novel The Sun Also Rises was published, which was initially successful and was called "the lost generation" by Stein.

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