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Who Is Ernest Hemingway A Code Hero

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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”(Santiago). Along the story Santiago was facing the fact that he had been running out of luck and was depending now on his skill and endurance. He is a queer old man, for he portrays courage, endurance and friendship throughout the story unlike many people around his age. Ernest Hemingway’s main characters always show this type of dignity and endurance when facing problems in an exemplar way, this he called the Hemingway Code. He reflects these characteristics in many of his story “The Old Man and the Sea.” Another name for this is “Code Hero”, which was defined by Hemingway as “a man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often
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