Santiago Sympathy

Sympathy is a universal emotion that we, as human all tend to felt toward people have an unfortunate, a harsher, more oppressed life than us. In Ernest Hemmingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ 1952 novella, an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago, our protagonist has strongly elicited our sympathy toward him due to the harsh, lonely, poor and full-of-suffering life that he had have to experience, especially when he loosed the greatest catch of his life: the marlin. Despite that there are counter arguments which proposed that Santiago is in fact very successful in terms of achieving admirable qualities through his journey thus don’t need much pity from others, it’s still undeniable that he is a sympathetic character considering all the mental and
which definitely make him a much stronger and better person, he doesn’t need our sympathy. This is true to an extent because despite his poverty and the heart-breaking loss of the marlin, Santiago actually not returns home with an empty hand but with qualities. Through the hardships he had had to encounter, he strengthened himself both mentally and physically. In other words, he had turned loss into triumph, the kind of triumph that will definitely be beneficial for the rest of his life. However, the fact that he through the challenges had transformed into a better human being does not able to account for all the devastated moment that he had went through that make him so much of a sympathetic character.
In the final analysis, it is transparent that Santiago through the novella had clearly turned loss into triumph through his remarkable determination and endurance, thus a character to be very admired of. However, taken into considerations all the horrendous, painful and fatal things that he had have to suffer with, ones will cannot helped but feel deep empathy to Santiago- and hope that one day he will able to achieve his dream- be able to once again have the greatest catch of his