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Well it isn't about men and fish at all. Writers can only write what they know about to reveal a deeper understanding. It could have easily been a story of a woman carrying her children up a mountain to safety durring a winter's war, and having to talk herself out of giving up no matter what cost to herself, holding on to a hope for a better life. But Hemingway picked an old man and an ocean. An old man instead of a young one so there is a deeper connection to mortality and weariness. But it is the end of the story that reveals a deeper understanding about our sufferring in solitude. The first people to comment on the old man's boat are tourists who say "I didn't know sharks had such beautiful fins" they don't even know it's a tuna! We all have people like this in our lives: those that don't have the slightest idea what we persevere. The second to comment on what the old man endured are the keepers at the cabana. They accually know by looking at the mutilated tuna and the man being gone for so long what he must have gone through, but they just say: "why doesn't he just quit?"
We all have this kind around is too.They see what we go through but distance themselves.
But the third who comes is the boy who as soon as sees the fish he weeps and runs to the man's shack, and goes to get food for him, and tends to him, and tells the old man when you feel better I'll go out with you. This kind of person, this kind of love we don't get often if ever. So yes the story of the old man and the sea uses this plot of fishing alone to explore our struggle in solitude and how we talk ourselves through it alone and also that we have people around us who can't see us or do but don't care and then there are the treasures who really feel for us and will do whatever it takes to reduce our sufferring no matter what cost to themselves because they really love us.