"The Old Man and the Sea", written by American writer Ernest Hemingway. "The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's masterpiece and a symbolic novel. The protagonist Santiago is an old fisherman. After many hardships and dangers, he caught "a big marlin weighing more than 1,500 pounds." However, on the way back, the big marlin was eaten by sharks. Santiago only hauled back a fish skeleton. The novel has a unique description of the desolate scene of the sea, the old man's complex emotions and memories, the old man's fight with a shark, and his friendship with a child, which is vivid and fascinating. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a novella written by modern American novelist Hemingway in 1952. It is also the last novel published by the author during his lifetime. Once it came out, it had a strong response internationally and set off a wave of "Hemingway fever" in the literary world at that time. It once again confirms to people Hemingway's unshakable status and outstanding achievements as an outstanding American novelist in the 20th century. This novel won the 1953 American Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.