Old Man and the Sea- What I did not like about the book.

Although I am a big fan of this book there are still many parts that I wish wouldn't have been there or would have been changed. One of these being the continuation from "What I liked about the book" describing repetition. Although there were many good ones there was on that I just did not understand. That was the repeating of the purple/violet color of the fish. (Hemingway) This was described multiple times in the book when talking about different fish that were not a great significance in the book. When I was reading I kept searching for a reason of why this color was so important. No matter how much I have looked into it I still can not find a good reason. This is irritating to me because that made me spend the whole book thinking it would all come together and make sense but then low and behold I am on the last page with no explanation. The next ting I did not like about the book was the very vague ending. I didn't feel like they left me hanging like in many book but I feel like all effort was lost at the end. I feel as if Hemingway put so much effort into the entire book but at the end just kind of lost the flair. There really wasn't much of a formal resolution of the fact that Santiago was deemed unlucky. (Hemingway) That bothered me because that was part of the conflict in a way, the part where he wanted to redeem respect again. I feel as if Hemingway should have given as much effort into the ending as he did the story because with a vague ending the story itself becomes kind of mediocre. It is like when your friend tells this long and kind of interesting story but at the very end they don't really tell you what happened and you feel like the story became kind of boring. So pretty much I loved the story and the storyline up until the very end because Hemingway didn't really give us one.