Indomitable and unyielding - the image of "tough guy"

The image of tough guy refers to a series of characters that appear in Hemingway's works. These characters include boxers, matadors, hunters, fishermen, etc. They all have an indomitable and unyielding character. They all show a calm and calm will in the face of violence and death, and in the face of unchangeable fate. Strength, maintaining human dignity and courage. The protagonist Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea" embodies the image of a tough guy in Hemingway's heart, and thus becomes the most prominent and unique representative of the many tough guy images in Hemingway's works. Santiago's famous saying "People can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated" is the spiritual state of this "tough guy" image.