It has its perils and its merits
The second was at seventy-five and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms. Each bait hung head down with the shank of the hook inside the bait fish, tied and sewed solid and all the projecting part of the hook, the curve and the point, was covered with fresh sardines
He was very fond of flying fish
. First you borrow. Then you beg.
the sail that was furled around the mast
Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic.
the man said. “You whore.”
The Old Man and The Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952.