【正文】 han his skiff. The Marlin is immense and strong. Santiago and the Marlin, neither side is ready to yield. The great fish is also a remarkable and respectable fish. The Marlin is actually towing the skiff behind him. The fish moves steadily and they travels slowly on the calm water. “The contest is to see who can endure longer than the other. By this time Santiago’s straw hat cuts his forehead and he has been without nourishment for hours. But he just drinks a little water, then he rested sitting on the sitting on the unstopped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure”(The American Tradition in Literature, Page117). In the old man’s attitude to the fish there is the type of gallantry and heroism that Hemingway admires. This gallantry, this heroism, is paralleled by the stoical heroism of the great Marlin, like his opponent, neither gives up. In addition, the force exerted by the old man is exactly counter—balanced by the natural force being exerted at this time by the huge hidden fish. Just because the Marlin is as strong minded as Santiago himself, Santiago begins to love and respect the Marlin. Although the Marlin has swallowed the bait, he doesn’t admit his failure. “The fish made a surge that pulled him down on his face and made a cut below his eye. The blood ran down his cheek a little way. But is coagulated and dried before it reached his chin and he worked his way back to the how and rested against the wood.” At this time if Santiago cut the line and lets the fish go, he can get rid of the embracement, but that also means Santiago fails in the battle. Santiago doesn’t choose such a solution. He even doesn’t think of it. When he is thirsty, he takes some water。 when he is sleepy, he lies forward cramming himself against the line with all of his body, putting all his weight onto his right hand. Even his left hand cramps and his right hand is cut by the line, he just tries his best to endure. From the old fisherman’s point of view, any pain does not matter to a man. He makes resolution to stay with the Marlin until he is dead. Then Santiago meets with a more terrible disaster. The sharks spring on the Marlin and want to take his prize away. The old fisherman doesn’t fold his hands and wait for destruction. Instead, he bravely determines to fight them until he dies. Actually the old man’s head is clear and good now. He is full of resolution to fight with them until the sharks. But he knows that there is little hope for him to win since he is so weary and so tired. He knows the failure is inevitable. But he should behave as a man in the battle field. With his blood mashed hands he rams the harpoon down onto the biggest shark, but the shark takes his harpoon away. So he lashes his knife to the butt of one of the oars. Then he takes up the oar with the knife blade snaps. In the dark, groups of sharks spring onto the Marlin. He knows that his triumph is too good to last. But on the other hand, “man is not made for defeat,” (The Old Man and the Sea, Page89) this declaration clearly presents his characteristic as a Code Hero. “This fidelity to what he believes is part of his quixotic gallantry.” In facing so many sharks, Santiago doesn’t show any fear. He pulls himself together and fights the sharks more fiercely. Loneliness Endurance in the Long Fighting The author doesn’t tell us the origins of the old man, nobody knows where he es from, nor does no one know whether he has relatives. “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff,” only a child panies with him. But after 40 days, the child is also going away ordered by his parents. The old man has to face the sea and the sharks. But these are not the most fearful thing, the greatest fear is loneliness. The feeling of loneliness is more fearful than loneliness itself. The only way the old man resolves it is to talk to himself. The author has many portrays that the old man is talking to himself: At the beginning, “he looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now.” But “he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again,” (The Old Man and the Sea, Page22) “He did not remember when he had first started to talk aloud when he was by himself. He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night, Sometimes when he was alone steering on his watch in the smacks or in the turtle boats. He had probably started to talk aloud, when alone, when the boy had left. But he did not remember.” (The Old Man and the Sea, Page29) These portrays tell us that most of the old man’s life es with loneliness. If the boy was here, the old man is happy. When he is alone, he just talks to himself or sings loudly to make fun. “If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy,” he said aloud. “But since I am not crazy, I do not care.” (The Old Man and the Sea, Page30) The old man even says to the bird “Stay at my house if you like, bird”, “I am sorry I cannot hoist the sail and take you in with the small breeze that is rising. But I am with a friend.” (The Old Man and the Sea, Page44) In the mon time, the old man is always with the boy. But this time, the old man sails alone. When struggling with the Marlin, the old man also says to himself, “I wish I had the boy.” (The Old Man and the Sea, Page41). “I wish I had the boy,” the word appears many times in the work. I don’t think the old man hope there was someone who can help him. “He decided that he could beat anyone if he wanted to badly enough.” (The Old Man and the Sea, Page59) What he is looking forward to is that someone can see his experience, his courage and his ability. The old man is eager to be identified, and he pursues of the selfsatisfaction. Through talking to himself, he overes