After Reading
The Old Man and the Sea On Loneliness, Desire, and the Limits of the Self
Beneath Hemingway’s spare, precise prose, you can sense something deeply human — a restless soul hungry for recognition, straining toward self-fulfillment, yet never quite able to break free from its own circling thoughts. In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago pushes himself to the edge of human endurance. He refuses to surrender to fate. He catches his great fish. And yet — the sharks strip the flesh from the bones, leaving only a magnificent skeleton, and the old man returns to shore utterly spent. Does he feel satisfied? Perhaps for a moment. But the driving force behind his struggle was never really about the fish. It was the urge to prove something — to himself, and to the world....
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