An Ideal Hero

What makes a hero? Alike with all other persons, Ernest Hemingway had his own perceptions of what a hero truly is. In Hemingway’s novella, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago, the old man, attained characteristics that could depict him as an ideal “Hemingway Hero.” Through the old man’s adventurous spirit, his fearlessness of death, determination, and his independence, Santiago fits Hemingway’s hero description.
The old man, Santiago, acquires the qualities of an outdoorsman. Being an outdoorsman in Hemingway’s views means that a person is a “manly man,” a strong spirit. Outdoorsmen are adventurous people who in many cases enjoy such things as hunting, fishing, hiking, etc. Seeing as how “He [Santiago] was an old man who fished alone in the Gulf Stream” (9), Santiago could be described, in this aspect, as a Hemingway Hero.
Along with being an outdoorsman, full of adventure, Santi...