【正文】 ofundity of the old man’s sacrifice and the glory that derives from it, Hemingway purposefully likens Santiago to Christ, who, according to Christian theology, gave his life for the greater glory of imagery is the most noticeable way in which Hemingway creates the symbolic parallel between Santiago and Santiago’s palms are first cut by his fishing line, the reader cannot help but think of Christ suffering his , when the sharks arrive, Hemingway portrays the old man as a crucified martyr, saying that he makes a noise similar to that of a man having nails driven through his , the image of the old man struggling up the hill with his mast across his shoulders recalls Christ’s march toward the position in which Santiago collapses on his bed—face down with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up—brings to mind the image of Christ suffering on the employs these images in the final pages of the novella in order to link Santiago to Christ, who exemplified transcendence by turning loss into gain, defeat into triumph, and even death into renewed major characters in this book are also vivid and ,the old man of the novella’s title, Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who has had an extended run of bad his expertise, he has been unable to catch a fish for eightyfour is humble, yet exhibits a justified pride in his knowledge of the sea and its creatures, and of his craft, is unparalleled and helps him preserve a sense of hope regardless of marlin ,Santiago hooks the marlin, which we learn at the end of the novella measures eighteen feet, on the first afternoon of his fishing ,a boy presumably in his adolescence, Manolin is Santiago’s apprentice and devoted old man first took him out on a boat when he was merely five years to Santiago’s recent bad luck, Manolin’s parents have forced the boy to go out on a different fishing , however, still cares deeply for the old man, to whom he continues to look as a DiMaggio, although DiMaggio never appears in the novel, he plays a significant role worships him as a model of strength and mitment, and his thoughts turn toward DiMaggio whenever he needs to reassure himself of his own ,Perico, the reader assumes, owns the bodega in Santiago’s never appears in the novel, but he serves an important role in the fisherman’s life by providing him with newspapers that report the baseball act establishes him as a kind man who helps the aging ,like Perico, Martin, a caf233。s spirit too in life, do the thing and is not afraid of the difficulty , could achieve big blood offensive smell of fish smell one shark , fall over each other to visit to vie for the food, left hand of old man pull a muscle just, he can only use right hand, can weapon attacked to used for defend oneself with stick , mouth of swordfish that catch everything, and has driven away this herd of shark big meat of fish take into big half already, but old man criticize one39。s fish totally in the tolerance , the ones that have described this fish are enormous again, prove that old fisherman39。s fish which exceeds several times of one39。.But he then had to fight the sharks and finally he gone home with a fish spine, and some fish could find his great spirits of never giving if he jus loose the grip of the fishing pole and let the fish go, he wouldn39。自覺要求再讀第二遍，值得表揚，繼續(xù)努力吧！