《老人与海》是海明威创作上的巅峰,是体现他独特冰山创作原则的作品,也是他赖以获得诺贝尔文学奖的主要力作。文中的老人桑地亚哥是个象征性的人物,在他的身上我们可以看到许多悲剧性的特征,正是这些悲剧性的特征体现了作家对所关注命题的沉悟与思考。透过小说表面,不能不说这是一部描写现实主义的巨作,但就整体而言,则堪称一部象征主义的作品。 “The Old Man and the Sea” is the pinnacle of Hemingway’s creation, his work reflecting the principle of his unique iceberg creation, and is also the main force for which he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The text of the elderly Santiago is a symbolic figure, in his body we can see many tragic features, it is these tragic features reflect the author’s attention and meditation on the topic of concern. Through the surface of the novel, one can not but say that this is a masterpiece depicting realism, but as a whole, it is called a symbolism.