Question

Discuss Santiago's obsession with being a worthy adversary for the marlin in The Old Man and the Sea.

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In reply to criticism by literary critics that Hemingway had nothing to offer the world literary contribution, he replied with his most profound novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

This is the story about a senior fisherman who is considered unlucky and goes out for the ocean and lands on the biggest catch of his life only to have to be eaten up by sharks.

Santiago's obsession comes from a great respect that the love of a human for the fish. The line which states that  'Man can be destroyed but not Santiago is proved his worthiness to the people around him.

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