The Old Man And The Sea

The Old Man and the Sea By Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was an American Author, born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway did more to change to style of English writing than any other writer in the twentieth century. While in Paris in 1920, he became part of the expatriate community, which included writers Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound. This experience would prove to give him the strong foundation in writing that would …

…type of inspirational motive, I think he was trying to get a point across. I think what he meant was just when you think your dream is realized, it may not always work out the way you want, and if it doesn’t, it can hurt, and it can get even worse, just like the sharks; but just as Hemingway said, “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” That was Hemingway’s favorite quote.