摘要：

《老人与海》讲述了老渔夫捕鱼过程中的坎坷经历，主题深刻，是一部英雄主义的赞歌。“一个人不是生来就要被打败的，你可以消灭他，但就是打不败他。”已经成为至理名言，老人也成为海明威式“硬汉”的最典型、最完美的代表。本文是从分析作品中老人这一形象出发，揭示“硬汉”的特征，倡导一种坚忍不拔，永不言败的精神.此外论文还就《老人与海》这一经典小说的其他形象进行了深层次理解与创新性的解读。论文主要包括以下几个方面：对于小说中桑提亚哥的人物形象的个人理解、结合当时时代背景作者海明威的生活状态是怎样的、国内外学着的研究、小说的主题、象征意义、作品价值、小说在塑造人物形象中运用的写作手法、小说中主人公有哪些精神值得人们学习、小说中人物的命运是悲剧还是喜剧等。经过大量的搜集信息以及对相关资料的学习和与其他读者的讨论，笔者综合这些结果来完成本次论文。

关键词：形象；主题；象征意义; 写作手法; 价值; 精神

Abstract:

The Old Man and Sea tells the frustrated experience that the old fisherman fishes in the course. The theme is deep, and it is a song of praise of heroism. “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated”, has been the classic saying and the old man also has been the most typical and the most representative of the Hemingway’s “tough guy”. In the introduction of the essay, I will make a brief description about the content of this novel and point out the main idea of the novel. The content of the essay is to analyze the characteristic of Code Hero. What’s more, this paper has a deeper understanding and creative interpretation of this classic novel’ characters. Therefore, the paper mainly includes the following aspects: the personal understanding image of Santiago characters in the novel ; combined with the background of the author of Hemingway's life is to discuss how and why the novel is so successful, foreigners research of it, the theme of the novel, symbolism, the value of the novel, what is the writing method of the novel in shaping the characters of the main technique. What spirits in the novel is worthy of studying. Is a tragedy or comedy of the character’s fate,etc. After gathering a great deal of information and the related information of learning and discussing with other readers, the author integrates the results to finish the paper.

Key words: image; subject; symbolism; writing skill; value; spirit