U na interesting series of objections included as a comment from Loris to my reading of "The Old Man and the Sea" I believe requires a detailed answer since of topics that seem of great interest. Thank you Lori for the effective consideration and clarification. But I believe that some issues require clarification. Claims, Loris, not to see the defeat in the history of Santiago, but the epilogue "of a human life meant to a slow depletion of the difficulties of old age and loneliness." I completely agree with the quotation marks part of the statement. Disagree with the conclusions. Simply stress that so accurately describes its defeat. Not by chance at the end Loris decides to "simplify" a reference, I think inevitably, to a theistic religious interpretations of the problem. It 'just the point. Without someone to thank or curse, not a "court" from which any resulting final sentence (I speak of life and its inevitable end), every path, every step, every human action is a defeat because it lacks meaning. Santiago and all of us with him, is a loser. Because he suffered, not knowing the source of his / our suffering, because they accept everything, even life and death, convinced "born for this." If we are not here, in the presence of a sacred vision or if you prefer religious life and death, then I must admit that I have read another book.
I the pessimism of the last Lucretius Hemingway is almost clear. If there is a "After" also eternally rewarding, lived and suffered pain in the world can still be eliminated. What has happened has happened. No eternal reward, not the glorious light of God can undo even the slightest pain endured in this life. Santiago is totally defeated. And because, in theistic perspective or, as Loris, religion, life, pain and death depend on something else. Whether one accepts an interpretation of the world that gives total jurisdiction man over his own destiny. If there is an impartial referee , an eternal loving father or a cruel despot, not so powerful. Not even know if there really is a higher instance impartial trial. Job was convinced of the contrary: "nor is there an arbitrator between the two of us that puts his hand on us' (9.32) or, as Catholics call it, a merciful Father, as Lori says, " is changed to collect the two creatures that have gained in their lives, dealing with the last battle, equal dignity ".
S acral of violence and death. But without choice there is no dignity or sacredness. Santiago, the marlin and Santiago and the marlin all over the world can really choose? Who chose to be born? Job, yet he, with very human distress cries "... Not a fire lit by human consumption ..." (20, 26). We can, says Hemingway, is to choose when and how to die. And so, accordingly, it was.
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