Santiago spends each day out at sea hoping to catch something worth bringing to shore, and when he doesn’t you can find him out there again the next day, with all the hope and determination he had the day before. Santiago believes that he was born to fish, which plays a part in his drive to make a living off of what he loves to do. “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” No matter how long he goes without catching a fish, he has enough hope in himself and in the sea to try again. Santiago loves fishing, weather he catches anything or not, being out on the sea is better to him than all the riches he could have. “Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color of the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”
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