"The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Many themes are present in Hemmingway's novel, The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway uses wonderful imagery and symbolism to illustrate the struggles of the old man and the fish throughout the story. "Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated." "'But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.'" In each of these quotes Hemingway is saying that man can be beaten but not overpowered.
The old man is a representation of a human. A parallel of the struggle Santiago went through could be experienced by anyone. …