The Old Man And The Sea: Isolation

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one bed, one table, one chair, and
his wife's picture that he did not stand to look at so he took it down. At
the same time the open door takes us through the old man's mind showing his
hope that someone will stop by his cottage some day and come in without
knocking.

Another incident that shows the isolation of the old man is the Terrace.
The terrace is a place that shows how other fishermen treat the old man and
make him feel as a stranger among them. The narrator of the novel supports
this idea when he says: " They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen
made fun of the old man and he was not angry." ( P 11)

The young fishermen do not want the old man among them because he is
different from all of them. They always try to make fun of him and make him
feel out of place. Until now they did not succeed to break him down but
they motivated him to work harder to prove himself to them.

The setting that Hemingway uses give the reader a feeling of the pain and
alienation of the ...

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and finally
salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and he boy had
gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good
fish the first week." ( P 1)

Also the narrator shows how The old man talks to his hand in his boat:

" How do you feel hand? He asked the cramped hand…
I'll eat some more for you…How does it go, hand? Or
it is too early to know? " ( P 58-59 )

Even though the old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him,
the boy's parents forced Manolin to leave Santiago to another boat. The old
man in their eyes represent the failure because he wasn't fortunate enough
to catch a fish for 40 days. This ...

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