This is going to be a really weird statement to begin my blog, but... I wonder if the old man ever got bored while he was at sea all day. Sometimes when I go fishing with my dad or with my grandpa I get bored. I think that it would be really hard to go out to sea everyday with a good mentality if I have not caught a fish in over eighty days. I admire the old man for having the perseverance, but I have no idea how he does it. Like I said when I do not catch a fish for like ten or twenty minutes I get frustrated and start to give up on fishing in that same spot. I think that where you are fishing has a really big impact on the size of the fish that you are going to catch. Santiago obviously know that he had to go way out into the Gulf of Mexico in order to make a really good catch, but he also knew that the fish he would deal with would be a lot stronger and more accommodated in the deep water that the old man was not really used to at all.
I also wonder if the old man ever doubted himself. I believe that the author makes it sound like the old man had an almost flawless character make up, but no one is perfect, so there has to be some flaw. I think that the flaw in the old man was that he did not always have confidence in himself. I believe that in order to be "lucky" at something, you have to believe that you have what it takes and you can do it. The old man probably did not have the greatest confidence after he had gone so many days without catching a fish. I think that I may have already stated this in a previous blog, but I would have lost all confidence in my fishing skills and I probably would have moved on to something other than fishing.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.
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