Symbol of the Sea In

Explaining the Symbol of the Sea

* Woman:

o "se is very kind and beautiful but she can be so cruel [also]" pg 29

o "the moon affects her as it does a woman" pg 30

o "the old man always thought of her as feminine" pg 30

* Deep/Dark and Mysterious:

o "the water was dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple" pg 35

o "the sea was very dark and the light made prisms in the water" pg 40

o "it was only the great prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now" pg 40

o "the water . . . was a mile deep" pg 40

o "that cold water in the dark" pg 42

o "he could see the prisms in the deep dark water" pg 60

o "the boat moved slowly through the dark water" pg 64

o "[the fish was] slicing through the dark [water]" pg 67

o "the dark water of the true gulf" pg 99

o "he had come up from deep down in the water" pg 100

o "the great sea with our friends and our enemies" pg 120

* The Sea is abundant with good things:

o "he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish" pg 35

o "he look down into the water and saw the tiny fish that . . . swam between them" pgs 35-36

o "the tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose [out of the water]" pg 38

* Pleasurable [releases pain and suffering, "washes away"]:

o "[the old man] washed his hand in the ocean and held it there . . . for more than a minute watching the blood trail away . . . the old man would have liked to keep his hand in the salt water