SymbolisminTheOldManandtheSea

毕业论文〔设计)he was interested in music,hunting,fishing,boxing and bullfighting.His variety of interest especially the love of fishing extremely affected all his lifeand he drew much writing inspiration from his fishing experience.Taking adventuresalso plays a vital role in his life,and for this reason,he experienced the two worldwars.As a noticeable representative of the "Lost Generation",Hemingway publishedthe book of this sort,The Sun Also Rises.The book chiefly deals with the livingattitude of post-war generation,especially the life of those wounded soldiers and thekind of loneliness and disillusionment of modern people whose ideals were shatteredat a time when "God is dead".They thought life was nothing and meaningless.In thiscase,Hemingway became a spokesman for the "Lost Generation".In 1952,Hemingway published The Old man and the Sea.Actually,the novellais a parable of man's struggle against the nature.Hemingway writes this novella basedon a true story of a Cuba fisherman--Santiago.He is an aged and solitary man whomakes a living by fishing.After eighty-four days without catching a fish,he goes farout and hooks a great fish.For three days,the old man holds on while the fish pullshim further and further.Finally he kills the fish and ties it to his skiff.As he sailsslowly to port,brutal sharks begin to take his prize away.He makes every effort tostruggle against them with the harpoon,the oar,the knife and the short club.Thesharks eat all but the skeleton of the fish.Half dead with exhaustion,he brings theskeleton home and makes his way to bed and dreams about the lions.The novella is not just a story about an old man and the sea.Hemingway usesmany symbols and there are many hidden meanings in it.Each element represents2