Have I read this before: I think I read this in high school? I remember reading it, but I don’t remember when.

Review: I dig Hemingway. I like his style. It’s simple but the ideas expressed in it are complex. I don’t know if it’s because this is a novella and not a novel, but this definitely seems like a slightly different style than “typical” Hemingway. But I like it. I’ve read that one of the criticisms of the story is now “ungrounded” it is compared to how Hemingway typically writes, but I think it works here.

Favorite part: I really like this reflection by Santiago:

“Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.

I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”

Rating: 6/10