The Old Man and the 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”. When Hemingway talked about the successful factors later, the little boy was mentioned in the same breath with the old man.
This paper starts with the details and it is divided into two main parts to discuss the indispensable roles of the little boy in the novel. It is him who helps to perform the theme of “grace under pressure”: during 40 days, the old man with the little boy went to fish but without taking a fish, when his situation was getting worse step by step, the little boy’s leaving was the heavy pressure that achieved the extreme stern for certain. However , it was so “heavy pressure” that his manner was graceful when the old man faced afterwards defeat and his optimistic, generous life attitude was worthy tasting by people carefully; it is him who plays the role of leading, inspiring to the readers, and increasing the appeal of the work, enriching the content of the work: although the little boy appears only at the beginning and the ending in the novel, there is nothing in his inner state but the old man, so his attitude and emotions towards the old man affects the readers’ emotions for the old man quietly and gradually. And it is unavoidable that his inner feeling leads and impacts the readers’ emotions.
Key words: roles; the little boy; the old man; grace under pressure; The Old Man and the Sea
摘要
《老人與海》講述了老漁夫捕魚過程中的坎坷經歷，主題深刻，是壹部英雄主義的贊歌。“壹個人不是生來就要被打敗的，妳可以消滅他，但就是打不敗他。”已經成為至理名言，老人也成為海明威式“硬漢子”的最典型、最完美的代表。當海明威談到小說成功的因素時，曾頗為自得地將小男孩與老人相提並論。
本文擬從有關細節入手， 分析 討論小男孩在《老人與海》中所起的微妙且不可或缺的作用：是他幫助表現了“重壓下的優雅風度”這壹主題：在老人84天沒有捕到魚，處境壹步步惡化的厄運中，小男孩的離去無疑讓老人的“重壓”達到了極度嚴峻的地步，然而正是由於如此的“重壓”，老人後來面對失敗時的態度才可謂“優雅”，所表現的大度、樂觀的人生態度才值得人們仔細地品味；是他對讀者發揮著壹定的牽引、打動和啟發作用，從而增強了作品的感染力，豐富了作品的內涵：孩子雖然只出現在小說的首尾兩處，但是孩子的內心世界裏別無他物，只有老人，他對老人的態度和感情潛移默化地左右著讀者對老人的感受，他的內心情感無可避免地要牽動 影響 著讀者的情緒。