Studies in English Language and Literature

  There are a preface and an epilogue of the main story of Santiago’s memorable fishing. As the novel opens, we get acquainted with an aged man named Santiago who has failed to catch, for about 84 days, a fish of noteworthiness. Manolin’s parents ordered him to work with a lucky fisherman. Nevertheless, Manolin, the boy, unhappy with his new master, returns to Santiago and offers to give his company to Santiago for the next day’s fishing. The old man somehow dissuades telling him to work with Martin, who was the owner of the terrace. Anyway, both Santiago and Manolin, in spite of the difference of their age, are fond of baseball games. Both support the Americans in this regard. Their hero is DiMaggio. Thereafter, we see that the boy brings some food and two beers to the old man’s poor hovel. Apart from that, he thinks how to obtain clothes, blanket, soap and towel for his dear master. While taking food, they talk of baseball, of the players and managers. They gossip that the managers h