He comes through an acknowledgment of his own ignorance and folly to an even greater acceptance of life's vicissitudes-what we might call wisdom. But he understands something of how things go that has little to do with book learning or sophistication. The old man is uneducated, has a limited experience of the world, and may not be all that smart. The Old Man and the Sea is his finest distillation of this attitude. It's not cynicism exactly, although he occasionally laps over into that, but an acceptance of the game of life which is stacked against us but which we must stoically and with bravado, if not bravery, engage in anyway. Or, as author, he brings them to this position that he presumably already occupies. His lead characters usually have a stillness about them, often contrasting with the more frantic efforts of those around them, as if they know more of the ways of the world than others and are just playing along. But my own feeling is that what he really wanted was to be considered wise. CRITIQUE | THE TEXT | THE MOVIES A simple fish story?Ī lot has been said about Hemingway's ideals of courage, grace under pressure, and all that.
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