by Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

Short Summary

There is an old fisherman, Santiago, in Cuba who has gone eighty-four days without a catch. He is “thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck,…and his hands had deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert” (10). Santiago’s lack of success, though, does not destroy his spirit, as his “cheerful and undefeated” eyes show (10). He has a single friend, a boy named Manolin, who helped him during the first forty days of his dryspell. After forty days, though, Manolin’s parents decide the old man is unlucky and order their son to join another boat. Despite this, though, the boy helps the old man to bring in his empty boat every day.

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