Interpretations on "The Old man and the Sea"

        The Old man and the Sea, the story written by Earnest Hemingway, is a story about an old Cuban man Santiago. In this story writer gives the picture of human courageousness. In this story he gives the character of an old man struggles with a huge fish Merlin. It basically gives the idea of humanity and also courage ,and love for nature. We can see a small boy of that Cuba Island, Mandolin, his respect for Santiago and he also considers him as his role model. Where Santiago’s role model is Joe DiMaggio who refers here as a indomitable human spirit. Santiago is also, here, refers as a symbol of Jesus Christ on the basis of his relationship with other characters of the novel and also in the Bible Jesus Christ described as fisherman. Santiago’s love for nature we can see in the lines, “Fish”, “he said, “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends. “This shows his deep respect and love for fish.  So, the whole story is specially referred for courage, strength and struggle of human being and Hemingway is successful to prove this.