![]() ![]() I know that others did not find the story as compelling as I did. That is a grand experience and writing which can dramatize and touch that place is, for me, special writing. The strange, solitary trek put him in touch with his soul more times than once. If remembrances were quantifiable commodities, then his surely will be worth its weight in gold. Sure enough, he caught it, lost most of it, yet still carried away the memory of an extraordinary experience filled with a gamut of ennobling and demoralizing emotions. ![]() And although I've never really fished, somehow I knew that the marlin would be too big, and would just make shark bait- I had anticipated that somehow, and felt myself equally anxious that he would and wouldn't catch it. ![]() For me it was compelling psychological drama- most of the action takes place in the fisherman's thoughts and feelings, hopes and fears. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingways most enduring works. I felt as if I was on the boat along with the old fisherman, sharing his angst and awe and wonder. The Old Man and The Sea, Book Cover May Vary. What impressed me most was how extraordinarily vivid the story seemed to me. That's a concise a wonderful way of putting it in my opinion. Someone in this thread wrote that the point was the journey, not the end. This was my first Hemingway read, and I was very impressed with the storytelling. ![]()
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