In the book 'The Old Man And the Sea', the old man represents some abstract ideas. There are many abstract ideas that he represents, but the two main ones are patience and perseverance. The old man is very patient in the book. He is patient while he is waiting for himself to catch a fish. He goes out to sea for eighty four days without catching a single fish. He also has to persevere everyday and keep his head up and keep trying to catch a fish. He probably felt like giving up after a while of not catching anything, but he persevered and kept going out everyday and finally it paid off for him. Another way that the old man represented the abstract idea of patience was when he was very patient with the young boy and all the fishermen who lived in his small town. Everyone judged him for not catching many fish and they all believed that he was unlucky. The old man knew he wasn't unlucky and even though being called unlucky every day was probably very annoying, he ignored them and kept trying to prove them wrong. Another abstract idea that the old man represented in the book is strength. He was very strong in the book. He endured a lot of difficult challenges and pain while he was out at sea trying to catch his fish. He endured the pain when his body was betraying him. When his hand got cramped up and turned into a claw and when he was beginning to feel nauseous from the smell of the raw dolphin meat, he had no choice but to just try to get through it. He also had to endure all the cuts he got on his hands from holding on to the rope that the fish was on. Every time the fish would make sudden movements, The old man's hands would get cut. He had to endure hunger and being extremely tired too. In this story, the old man was very strong and had to endure a lot more than other fishermen in order to catch his marlin.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.
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