The actual fishing was even better than his memories of it. They young man, Nick, needed toīe alone and to control his thinking with physical tiredness and to get back to something in himself to which memories of fishing seemed to offer a clue. In "Big Two-Hearted River," one of the best and happiest of his early short stories, Hemingway sent a young man very like himself off alone on a fishing trip in completely deserted country in northern Michigan. Took care of him asked if he was strong enough now for a truly big fish, he said, "I think so. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it." When the boy who "The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Both craft-writing and fishing-are clearly in mind when the old man Santiago thinks of the strangeness of It is a tale superbly told and in the telling Ernest Hemingway uses all the craft his hard, disciplined trying over so many years has given him. The old man, Santiago, is "fast to the biggest fish that he had ever seen and bigger than he had ever heard of." The ultimate is now demanded of the craft which a half-century After eighty-four luckless days a marlin strikes his baitĪ hundred fathoms below the boat. It is September, the month of hurricanes and of the biggest fish. He fishes for his living, far out in the Gulf Stream, in a skiff with patched sails.
He "Old Man" is a Cuban, without money to buy proper gear or even food, and past the days of his greatest strength, when he was "El CampÈon" SeptemHemingway's Tragic Fisherman By ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS
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