The Old Man and the Sea Summary

The old man and the sea was a book about a crazy old guy and him trying to catch a big fish. He gets a bite and stays with it for days on end. Thats basically the story. I thought this book was really really dumb. I finished the book and was pretty mad I had just read it. I mean I understand the message and all. Which is how the fish is like life and the old man is tying to hang on. But come on. It was so dumb, he goes through all that, finally catches the fish, and it gets eaten by sharks. Then he gets home and just goes to bed. I felt robbed by the book. There was no resolution, no actual character development, it was just horribly dumb. One of the most annoying parts of the whole book was how he incessantly said the great Joe DiMaggio. As if the guy was some sort of myth or legend. When I started the book I was optimistic that it was going to be a good read since it started off pretty interesting. Then he went fishing which again was not all that bad. But once the giant fish bit his line it all went down hill after that. Theres only so many pages any author can or should write about someone catching a fish and Hemingway far surpassed the limit. At one point there was something like three pages of him eating a tiny fish he caught. The book definitely should have stayed the short story it started out as when it was first written. There just was not enough story to make it in to a novel, albeit a short novel. I think it was overall a good message it was just way to much filler in the story. It seemed like the author was just passing time and trying to stretch it out more than he should have. All in all I thought The Old Man and the Sea was a cruddy book, I did not care for it, I think it had a fine message in it but a bad novel all the same.