While in the battle with the marlin, everything Santiago did he encouraged himself to do better thinking about how much worse DiMaggio made it through. When he was reeling in the fish he would think my hands hurt, but I must continue for the great DiMaggio was able to keep playing with a broken bone. I think that without the help from DiMaggio giving the old man confidence that he can catch the fish, he wouldn't have. It takes a lot of strength and after three days the mental strength is more important than the physical.
I think that the symbolic significance is DiMaggio being greater than the old man who was considered the greatest fisherman ever by the local people. The significance of having Joe DiMaggio as a greater being was shown by how the old man acted. He believed in the great DiMaggio and was determined to be more like him. Without this will to be greater the marlin would have overpowered the old man and gotten away. Whenever the old man felt the slightest of discomfort he immediately switched his thoughts to what DiMaggio the great would do. He would think would DiMaggio whine about the pain, work through it, or give up. He would always say the great DiMaggio would never give up and that always gave him the will to continue on.
The great DiMaggio could have even represented God who was the Father of Jesus to go along with my blog about religion. If this was the case, which it would make sense, Joe DiMaggio and Santiago would have been the same in skillfulness, determination, and pain tolerance because in the Bible it states that Jesus was born pure and holy and that's exactly how God is.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.
"Joe DiMaggio (I) - Biography." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 18 Aug. 2011.
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