The moral of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is that miracles occur in unlikely ways. Pelayo and his wife do not know what to make of the very old man, but the townspeople treat the man like he is some of kind of supernatural creature capable of carrying out miracles.
Q. What kind of allegory does The Old Man and the Sea?
Thus The Old Man and the Sea is an allegory of man’s life on earth, his heroic struggle and defeat. Santiago is a Christ -figure who undergoes pain and suffering, and like Christ he suffers a kind of martyrdom.
Table of Contents
- Q. What kind of allegory does The Old Man and the Sea?
- Q. What does the old man symbolize?
- Q. What is the symbolic significance of old man’s fight with the sharks?
- Q. Why did Santiago lose all hope?
- Q. What is the old man’s attitude towards the Sharks?
- Q. What does the ending of the old man and the sea mean?
- Q. Does the old man die at the end of Old Man and the Sea?
- Q. What happens to the fish in The Old Man and the Sea?
- Q. What did Santiago regret?
Q. What does the old man symbolize?
The old man symbolizes all innocent refugees who have been displaced by the horrific realities of wars that they do not understand. He represents all such common folk, the main victims of war, who lose their homes and their livelihoods and their possessions when war breaks out around them.
Q. What is the symbolic significance of old man’s fight with the sharks?
The Shovel-Nosed Sharks As opponents of the old man, they stand in bold contrast to the marlin, which is worthy of Santiago’s effort and strength. They symbolize and embody the destructive laws of the universe and attest to the fact that those laws can be transcended only when equals fight to the death.
Q. Why did Santiago lose all hope?
Why did Santiago finally lose hope? The sharks ate the MEAT of the fish. The sharks just ate it and he went out to far.
Q. What is the old man’s attitude towards the Sharks?
Santiago is both optimistic and stubborn in staying out in his boat long after it seems he has no chance of catching any fish. Once he hooks the marlin, this tenacity turns to obsession, as the sharks literally consume the fish and the impossible situation figuratively consumes his sanity.
Q. What does the ending of the old man and the sea mean?
the boy did very much care about the old man, his struggle, honor, respect in the community. The ending highlights the ignorance of society-at-large the old man’s heroic feat. The tourist and waiter are only aware of the shark’s skeletal beauty without ever realizing what the old man has gone through.
Q. Does the old man die at the end of Old Man and the Sea?
No, Santiago, the titular old man in The Old Man and the Sea, does not die in the story. At the end of the story, he falls asleep and is “dreaming about the lions.”
Q. What happens to the fish in The Old Man and the Sea?
The old man thinks that the fish is killing him, and admires him for it, saying, “I do not care who kills who.” Eventually, he pulls the fish onto its side by the boat and plunges his harpoon into it. The fish lurches out of the water, brilliantly and beautifully alive as it dies.
Q. What did Santiago regret?
Even as he remains determined to kill the marlin, Santiago feels sorry that it has had nothing to eat. He feels that the people it will feed are not worthy of this great fish.
