The Characterization Of Santiago

Name: Sumra Jitendra Sem:1Year:2011-12Paper C-E-303The American Literature Department Of English

Main topics

1. Introduction.

2. Relation between Santiago and the Marlin.

3. Santiago associated himself with the great DiMaggio.

4. Santiago’s dream of the young Lion’s.

Introduction Santiago is an old man fisherman of undetermined

age . As a young man he traveled widely by ship and fondly remembers seeing lions . His wife died , and

he has taken her picture down because it makes him sad to see it . Now he lives alone in a shack on the beach . Every day he sets forth alone in his boat to make a living.

When the story opens, Santiago has gone eight-four days without catching a single fish. As a result he is pitied and regarded by the other fisherman as unlucky.

Relation between Santiago and the Marlin

Santiago pities the great fish and feels that are bound together in brother hood.

Although Santiago respects the Marlin, the end of the day.

In the midst of the struggles , the old man pauses of reflect and endows the fish with his own qualities nobility , calmness , and endurance.

The Marlin like Santiago has a trends this will to live and bolsters this will with stamina his strength for this pereorlaing moment. At first Santiago believes the great fish is being treated unjustly but thon finds treated justification in the demonstrate what his man can do and endure.

Santiago continually thinks of the great fish as his friend and his brother.

Santiago associated himself with the greed DiMaggio.

Santiago also love Baseball and occasimally gambles . He edifies with Joe DiMaggio , for the yanks in the 1940s and 1950s.

Santiago sees in Joe DiMaggio, the Baseball player.

He suffers marker from much pain because of a bone spur in his heel.

DiMaggio hoverer continues to “play the game” , “using his skill” his heart , and his early stronghold.

In this way he is as much of a man as he was in his youth and perhaps even more so , since it is the qualities of will rather than more strength that make a Champion

This is why Santiago assisted himself so closely with the ball player.

Santiago’s dream of the young Lion’s

As a symbol, the image of the young Lion’s communities a particular quality of emotion that serves to complement the theme of the novel and the nobility of Santiago.

This emotion is me of grandees of simplicity of power without meanness and of emend youth that Santiago represents.

Santiago is young in spirit if not in flesh and in the last analysis . This may be the most important youth of all . It is fitting that Santiago should dream of lion’s rather than of wealth or violence, or women, the “old man” of Hemingway's novel’s is eternally young even in his great age.