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. Sometimes he is young, and sometimes old. In Hemingway's novels The Nick Adams Stories and Old Man and the Sea, the Hero is introduced differently. In The Nick Adams Stories, Nick Adams begins as a naive, young boy then becomes the Hero within the view of the reader as his early life and the events that influenced his life most are the entirety of this memoir-style novel. In Old Man and the Sea, though, the old man does not develop into a hero. Santiago begins as an old man who has already attained the Heroic qualities that he will demonstrate intentionally throughout the rest of t

In The Old Man and the Sea, though, the Hero begins a Hero. He ends a Hero. The whole time, the old man is the cliche Code Hero. This is a unique and remarkable approach, and after the failure of his previous book, certainly a risky one. Noone had done this before and been successful. At least noone he, or I, know of, has. But Hemingway pulled it off. The book is not a portrait; it is not static, despite that the main character's morals - his ideals- never really change. The old man inspires and enlivens the readers, and makes them see something... without making the old man out of reach or inhuman. A reader of his previous works might feel that they have seen these characteristics in Hemingway's works before. That reader would probably find another 'Nieve boy becomes Code Hero' book, just like so many others they have read, much more boring.

In a typical 'Code Hero' book, the Hero begins as cocky, naive, or often, both. By the end, though, the Hero has, through the many experiences expressed in the book, become a strong and clear example

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