And yet he never lets go of the fishing line that connects him and the marlin. In this waiting game with the marlin, he verges onto the point of insanity, brought about by hunger, thirst and a lack of sleep. Santiago must wait for the marlin to get hungry and jump out of the water. Santiago’s run of bad luck continues for the 85th day he hooks a marlin, but the marlin is too smart to panic and die quickly. Hemingway too searches for a big success and writes this ambitious project. Hemingway had been trying to reclaim the literary success of his older books, such as “The Sun Also Rises” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Even though Santiago could have success in the easier, nearer patches of water, he hunts for a bigger fish further out. Santiago suffers from bad luck in his old age despite being a great fisher in his youth. It is easy to see the parallels between the old man in the novel, called Santiago, and Hemingway. Hemingway published ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ in 1952, and it was to be his last major work.
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