ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have just finished reading Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. I found the book to be quite a very interesting, absorbing and engaging book as well as sad. It is a story about an old fisherman who, after a number of weeks without catching fish, decides to go out at sea alone. Hemingway tells the reader, “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish” (p1). We are further told that, “Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated” (p1). The old man at times worked with a boy who was attached to him though his parents felt the old man no longer had luck to enable him to catch fish. Quite painful is the portrayal of the loneliness of old age. The old man himself while out at sea fishing talks to himself quite a lot. He even talks to his hand as if in was another person, a deep expression of the