I am going to do a character analysis of the townspeople. In the book they live in a small fishing community in Cuba. (Hemingway) The majority of the men and boys are fishermen. This is something that is taught at a very young age because its the villages way of life. The women and girls keep the home and help the men when they are needed. This way of life makes it very easy to pass judgment onto others because when someone is not only different from you, but also half the town then there is defiantly more of a chance of passing judgement. There wasn't to much said about the town passing judgment on store owners though, but this is probably because store owners are needed for them to make their living make sense. Not much point in catching fish if there is no one to sell it to. Here is where the judgment comes in, and it has to do with catching the fish. When you are a fisherman in the village there is little bit of competitions to where who can catch the most or the biggest. This is normal for the town. (Hemingway) It is not normal though for people to not be catching any fish at all. This kind of reputation is unwanted because then you will be known as "unlucky". This is exactly what the old man of the town, otherwise known as Santiago El Cameon was deemed to be. Have this kind of blemish makes it very hard to have any respect for the person because they are doing nothing. Well this is how the towns people of the fishing village saw it. They didn't know why he couldn't just catch a fish when they all were. This is why they deemed him so unlucky and why Santiago became even more sad/frustrated because his entire town was against him. The towns people all in all were just characters who passed judgment and made Santiago push even harder to get the big fish.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.
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