The Old Man and the Sea: A Young Man’s Perspective

Sam Rocha
10 min readJan 16, 2021

Introduction

The Old Man and the Sea is a tale of fishing, the ocean, a marlin, an old man, and a boy written by Ernest Hemingway in 1951. It is known for being a concisely written story. In this essay, I will present my thoughts on The Old Man and the Sea. I will summarize it and then present a commentary where I will go through the book again, chronologically providing…

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