Symbolic meaning in Old Man And Sea
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- Santiago carries his mast back to shore after his Marlin encounter. The way in which he carries it signifies the time when Jesus was crucified and carried the cross. “Then he shouldered the mast and started to climb” (Hemingway, 121).
- The Shovel-Nosed Sharks that eat the Marlin are said to be literary critics. Hemingway found them irritating, always bashing writers, without creating anything themselves.
- The sea itself is symbolic. It hides important things from Santiago, like the Marlin. When it finally gives it to him, Santiago must fight to keep it. The sea is life. Life hides things from us, only to reveal them later.
- Manolin is love an compassion, as well as the circle of life. Despite everything, Manolin loves Santiago, and shows him love and compassion, like checking up on him when he arrived back with a Marlin carcass. But more than that, he is there to replace Santiago’s glory days at some point.
- For Santiago, lions are symbols of his youth on the African beach. It is his youth that he wants the most, now that he’s getting older. This sends the point across that he might be too old to fish now
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