old man and sea

The Old Man And The Sea: Man Defeated Reading through the novel The Old Man and the Sea one, as a reader, can perceive several themes in the book. Hemingway suggests certain subjects for discussion which built up the whole plot, therefore giving us options to choose the one we believe is the main one. In the past weeks we have been discussing, in a debate, which is that main theme. My group’s theme …

…life. All the plans he had made with the fish and all the happiness that he had built were destroyed. The old man, sadly, was defeated by time and nature itself. May be that’s why the book has that name; it wasn’t an specific battle with the fish but with mother nature or just creation itself. Anyway, he lost. He ended as a defeated man and all of his efforts were in vain.