A review by ashleyserena
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

3.0

The prose and vocabulary are certainly older English, which took some adjusting for me. It wasn't until the old man referred to the "dolphin" he caught as a "dorado" when I understood he didn't have a whole bottlenose flopped aboard his tiny skiff. *Porpoises* were the actual dolphins. The story was short and bittersweet, and I appreciated Santiago's positive outlook on life. I wondered if the marlin he chased was a metaphor for himself reaching the end of his days, strong and full of stamina to the very end.