Divided Minds – Does the static expression of the Hemingway Hero in The Old Man and the Sea enhance or detract from the story? The Hemingway Hero is defined by a static set of characteristics. These characteristics remain essentially the same throughout all of Hemingway's works. The Hemingway Hero is always courageous, confident, and introspective. He does not let his fears get to him. The Hemingway Hero is expressed differently in each of his novels, though. …showed first 75 words of 677 total…

…showed last 75 words of 677 total…situation, and calls it “good.” This clearly parallels the Bible's story of creation. His “good place” is, in a way, his own self-made heaven. Hemingway, like many transcendentalists of his day, did not believe in God. Instead he relied, like Nick Adams, on finding his own escape from reality, making his own “good place”. Hemingway believed that the only way man could get through life was to create, to build, his own destiny for himself.