When He Caught A Fish By Ernest Hemingway

In the book, the old man is a failure because he has not caught a fish in 85 days. but he has caught a fish before. In the book he catches a dolphin to eat but he says he will never eat a dolphin raw again or without salt. hemingway states that he“struggles for 3 days to catch a fish and i understand that it is a 18ft marlin’’ page 65 He is also a failure because he says “unless sharks come and then a little later sharks come it's like he predicted it (that's kinda creepy). Sharks that he predicted to come ate his whole fish. The old man feels bad for the fish that he is going to kill . He loves the fish and he calls the fish his brother. Like I said earlier he loves the fish like a brother. the old man says he will eat the dolphin later, but then eats it to stay strong again like I said earlier he is a failure because he really needs to eat. But he also catches a lot of flying fish …show more content…
He must be really poor.
He is the worst form of unlucky. At least that's what the manolin's father thinks. And I agree with manolin’s father because he went 87 days without a fish.
The old man dreams of lions which I find really weird but he also dreamed of a 5 mile long thing of porpoise which would make more sense. both a failure and a success
The old man is a success because he caught a 18 ft. monster fish which was a marlin. It weighed 1500 lbs.
The old man prays to the blessed virgin for the death of the fish, the old man prays to the virgin Mary for the death of a fish. I can see why because he would get a lot of money for that fish i looked it up and he would get $550,00 because the fish weighed 1500