老人与海的英文读后感

　　《老人与海》英文读后感

　　The Old Man and the Sea

　　I. Introduction

　　The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

　　Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899-July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Pairs, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as “the Lost Generation.” He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway settled in Cuba during 1939 to 1960 and said he was “ordinary Cubans.” After the success of the Cuban revolution, however, his emotional life is very complicated. He had fourth marriages through his whole life with the unrest and painful emotional life. Hemingway wrote during the period famous masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea. And his distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as “grace pressure”. Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.