"The Old Man and the Sea" Question 1

In my opinion, I think that "The Old Man and the Sea" shows that Earnest Hemminway has a pretty go getter attitude.  The old man in "The Old Man and the Sea" has a similar attitude.  In the beginning of the novel he has gone eighty-four days without catching a single fish, and as a fisherman that's not really a good thing.  When he has help offered to him, however, he politely says no and goes on with his day in a half-glass-full manner.  He doesn't look at his "bad luck" as bad luck but simply the way things are and that only makes him determined to change it.  The novel is basically about the old man hooking a 1500 pound marlin and his battle trying to reel him in.  The climax of the book is when the old man, Santiago, finally sees the fish is tiring and despite how greatly fatigued he is himself, he begins to reel him in and eventually kills him.  It's a pretty long and very uneven fight, the old man being on the underdog side, yet the old man some how pulls it out.  This conveys to me that Hemingway was a glass-half-full kind of dude.  Though the old man does get the fish his happiness doesn't last long for the sharks come.  DUH DUH DUH DUUUUUH.  His marlin leaves a pretty decent blood trail that any shark would pick up on.  He kills about five sharks before he looses all his weapons and continues to badly injure a few, but eventually he must realize when there is nothing he can do and sits back and listen to his prized fish being eaten.  When he finally makes it back to shore, all that is left is a the head, tail, and carcuss.  Yet the old man still promises his good friend, "the boy", he will continue to fish and they will become partners again.  Through out the novel, the old man talks of baseball and his love for DiMaggio, the star on the Yankees at the time.  This leads me to believe Earnest Hemingway was a pretty big fan himself and valued the game.  The old man is at sea with the marlin three days and basically he thinks of the boy, how much his hands and back hurt but that it's not to bad, and baseball.  The narrators point of view is third person.  We see snippets of the old mans thoughts but it's mainly just describing the situation to us.  

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1952. Print.