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1、Impressionof“TheOldManandtheSea”WhenIwasamiddleschoolstudent,I’vefinishedthisbookinChinese.ButwhenIreaditinEnglish,Ireallygainsomethingnewbothinthewayofexpressionandthespirititshowstous.Maybedifferentagestoreadthesamebookwewilllearndifferentthingsfromi
2、t.Atleast,formypart,thatistrue.Firstly,Iwouldliketoreviewsomeinformationaboutthisbook.Suchasthebackground,majorcharactersandthetopicofit.TheOldManandtheSeaisastorybyErnestHemingway,writteninCubain1951andpublishedin1952.Itwasthelastmajorworkoffictiontob
3、eproducedbyHemingwayandpublishedinhislifetime.Oneofhismostfamousworks,itcentersuponSantiago,anagingCubanfishermanwhostruggleswithagiantmarlinfaroutintheGulfStream.[1]TheOldManandtheSeaservedtoreinvigorateHemingway'sliteraryreputationandpromptedareexami
4、nationofhisentirebodyofwork.Thenovellawasinitiallyreceivedwithmuchpopularity;itrestoredmanyreaders'confidenceinHemingway'scapabilityasanauthor.Itspublisher,Scribner's,onanearlydustjacket,calledthenovellaa"newclassic,"andmanycriticsfavorablycompareditwi
5、thsuchworksasWilliamFaulkner's"TheBear"andHermanMelville'sMoby-Dick.Thisbookgivesmeadeepimpressionespeciallythedescriptionabouttheman’sbravenessandpersistence.Inthisbook,inordertosuggesttheprofundityoftheoldman’ssacrificeandtheglorythatderivesfromit,He
6、mingwaypurposefullylikensSantiagotoChrist,who,accordingtoChristiantheology,gavehislifeforthegreatergloryofhumankind.CrucifixionimageryisthemostnoticeablewayinwhichHemingwaycreatesthesymbolicparallelbetweenSantiagoandChrist.WhenSantiago’spalmsarefirstcu
7、tbyhisfishingline,thereadercannothelpbutthinkofChristsufferinghisstigmata.Later,whenthesharksarrive,Hemingwayportraystheoldmanasacrucifiedmartyr,sayingthathemakesanoisesimilartothatofamanhavingnailsdriventhroughhishands.Furthermore,theimageoftheoldmans
8、trugglingupthehillwithhismastacross5hisshouldersrecallsChrist’smarchtowardCalvary.EventhepositioninwhichSantiagocollapsesonhisbed—facedownwithhisarmsoutstraightandthepalmsofhishandsup—bringstomindtheimageofChristsufferingonthecross.Hemi
