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Dignity In The Old Man And The Sea

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When we read these two books, Walden and The Old Man and The Sea, we are able to realize the importance of dignity for Thoreau and Santiago, the main character of The Old Man and The Sea. I will consider what their dignity is and how they get dignity. Santiago and Thoreau seem to live for their dignity and they act to protect their dignity. Dignity becomes their core. If it is so, for Santiago, what is the dignity? It seems that his dignity is being a fisherman. He has a pride as a fisherman but he is not proud of fishing a large amount of fishes and he is not proud of earning big money by fishing. He engages fishing as a fisherman. He stakes his life on fighting with fishes. Hemingway describes Santiago’s body in detail so that the readers are able to realize what Santiago’s dignity is. Santiago has deep wrinkles in the back of his neck, the brown blotches benevolent skin cancer and deep creased scars in his body. Everything about him is old. The readers probably thought that he is old, miserable and unfortunate. Moreover, they would think that Santiago is near the end. However, these impressions gradually and completely change. The first section is the scene of sleeping. He falls asleep in the chair. When His head falls forward, the wrinkles in the back of his neck do not show so much. There are no life in his face with his eyes closed. However, he comes back from a long way away when he opens his eyes. In the first page of the book, Hemingway tells us the old man has

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