This seems to be just right. The first is the definition of heroism, the second is the analysis of "The Old Man and the Sea", and the end is finished with one of Hemingway's best words in the article.

Heroism: Triumph over crushing adversity is the heart of heroism, and in order for Santiago the fisherman to be a heroic emblem for humankind, his tribulations must be monumental. Triumph, though, is never final, as Santiago's successful slaying of the marlin shows, else there would be no reason to include the final 30 pages of the book. Hemingway vision of heroism is Sisyphean, requiring continuous labor for quintessentially ephemeral ends. What the hero does is to face adversity with dignity and grace , hence Hemingway's Neo-Stoic emphasis on self-control and the other facets of his idea of ??manhood. What we achieve or fail at externally is not as significant to heroism as the comporting ourselves with inner nobility. As Santiago says, "[M] an is not made for defeat....A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

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The works of Ernest Hemingway generally center around the concept of heroism. Each of his novels contains a "Hemingway hero"--a man of honor and integrity who expresses himself not with words, but with action. The Hemingway hero is not motivated by glory or fortune, however. Hemingway's heroic figures are driven by a need to find inner peace in a modernized world that cannot provide them with the answers they seek.

The Hemingway hero is not a Godlike figure, but an ordinary, often flawed mortal who must look to himself for strength. As in The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell To Arms, Hemin

gway has the protagonist prove his strength by putting him in a crisis situation, usually involving a life-and-death predicament.

The Hemingway hero is actually a mirror image of the author himself. As A. E. Hotchner's novel Papa Hemingway illustrates, Hemingway had a penchant for putting himself in life situations. When the two writers met, Hemingway told Hotchner about how he loved to work with cotsies--large, wild cats. When Hotchner said that he thought "lion-baiting was threatening a rather dangerous pursuit for a writer who wanted to continue practicing his trade" (15), Hemingway replied that he did not "know [any] other place as good to lay it as on the line" (16).

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