What if Santiago did not truly win, but needed to believe that he had? Introduction by Ernest HemingwayWhen I finished The Old Man and the Sea, I believed I had written the truest story I could.Not the biggest.Not the most complicated.Simply the truest.Years passed, and something curious happened.Readers refused to leave the old fisherman alone.Some saw … [Read more...] about The Old Man and the Sea Explained by Top Scholars