书评

After reading this book, I admire the protagonist Santiago very much. After three days of exhausting fighting at sea, old Santiago finally hauled to the shore a huge rack of fish bones. In fact, the old man was the winner. And it would be impossible to believe that this frail old man could conquer the mighty sea. In Hemingway's view, life is an unwinnable war. But the old man did not stop action, which is a kind of pursuit in the face of death and failure. Therefore, we can see the dignity and great spiritual power in Santiago, and bring strong aesthetic effect to the readers: make us deeply realize the contradiction between the limitation of human life and the infinity of human pursuit. Who doesn't suffer some setbacks and failures along the way?Santiago gives us the inspiration is: the value and meaning of life lies in the action itself. Therefore, Hemingway found the soul for his beloved tough guys, which is the eternal value of mankind -- the solemn and noble struggle against fate. In Santiago, there is a deep and strong tragic consciousness of life. Although Hemingway's characters are tragic, they all accept failure calmly and face death bravely. These "tough men" reflect Hemingway's philosophy of life and moral, that is, human beings never surrender to fate and are always positive and optimistic towards life.