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Go to college so that you do not have to fish.

get a full time job, so that you do not have to fish.

Brilliant book. It is interesting that through this small book or novella we have so many different perspectives. What I took away from this book is how often some of our most challenging battles are fought privately, while often our failures are very public. One really never knows what obstacles another faces and overcomes.

It is the standard Man versus Self story. The fish was merely a representation of himself. The choice was/is always to fight or to give in and let go. The man realized he had lived a good life and for the most part had made the right choices, finally accepting his death.

I love Hemingway but this is not my favorite book.

The best book ever on carreer. We fight in an arena that people outside our profession can never understand. Sometmes we win, sometimes we fail. All we can do is work as hard as we can, pay attention to detail, and try to do the right thing. Win or fail, a few colleagues will respect us for our character.

life is not much of a fairytale but still in failure hides pride? it is some time ago that i have read this book and i am not very sure about my conclusion, but that is what i have came up with right now. i will read it again and judge rather i still agree with what i have just said.

I have been thinking about the message behind this book for a long time. Just recently I've been to the beach and it occured to me that Hemingway constructed a wonderfully accurate image of the sea and thereby a way to perceive it. The ocean gives and it takes. Over all it is like an omnipresent institution that could either heal or kill.

The value of tradition, and the dignity of labor.

Read it a while ago. I remember thinking it was actually about loneliness and about finding meaning in life.

Never lose hope

It's about the young boy. Think.

I agree, in part, with Geoffrey. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA is about fatalism. We cannot escape nature whether outside us or within. But it is not about futility. Rather, the way in which we accept/deal with what is fated can be noble and dignified. That is not futile. That is empowering.

Each reader can decide for himself whether Santiago achieves a measure of the noble and dignified even as he fails.

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Pure poetry in my opinion. My favorite book ever. Santiago is all of us, just trying to achieve what we deem to be success. Sometimes, it almost kills us. Santiago I think is also a metaphor in a few different ways. In one view, he is age, trying desperately to stave it off, the shark representing youth and the fish is his life. Another view is that he is humanity trying to rise above reptilian instinct (the shark) by trying to protect what is valuable in humanity. You could also say Santiago is ambition, lust, greed, because he so wants the fish, but we see that those qualities turn on him when the shark comes along. But he is also principle and honor because he is trying to feed his family and lead an honorable, respectable life, and the world (the shark) represents almost insurmountable obstacles and challenges we all must face in this life. Some people win in life according to what they feel life is, and some lose in life according to how they view life. I may be wrong, but I think Santiago ultimately wins.

I think the whole book is symbolic for growing old and the struggle of accepting that. The fish represents himself at his prime and the sharks represent the years eating away at him.

It's a Sissyphean tale of the futility and fatality of our most arduous strivings and the limitations of human effort against the forces of nature.

everything good is worth fighting for.

I really hate over analyzing a book - I read it -didn't analyze it- and still remember all the emotions I had reading it.

The message of this book is to waste the rest of your life to try and catch a big fish.

A complete bullshit !