《老人与海》描写了一位老渔夫在海上捕鱼，经过了84天，他还没有捕到一条鱼，大家都说他运气不好，不吉利，等到第85天，他决定去渔夫们从未去过的深海去打鱼，以证明自己的能力和勇气。在海上，老人发现了一条很大的马林鱼，它克服了重重困难，经过艰难的搏斗，终于在第三天早晨，把鱼叉刺进了马林鱼的心脏。在返回的途中，老人与到了鲨鱼的五次袭击，他用鱼叉、船桨和刀子勇敢反击。当他驾驶小船回到港口时，马林鱼只剩下一幅巨大的白骨架。(The Old Man and the Sea shapes the image of a common hero in the history of human literature. Cuba's old fisherman, Santiago, went to sea for eighty-four days without getting anything, but he did not despair, and finally caught a big fish. He and the big fish fought at sea for three days before killing it and tied it to the side of the boat. The fish was repeatedly attacked by sharks, only the backbone and tail were left when they returned to port. This book established Hemingway's prominence in world literature, which successively won the 1953 American Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Old Man and the Sea can not only let you know an old man who remains graceful under the weight of life, a tough man who is mentally invincible, but also can let you feel the profound experience of life and the solemn life experience, as well as a person's perfect and lofty personality and the spirit of never giving up.)