Santiago Theme Of Loneliness

Loneliness is something that the old man, Santiago experienced throughout his life, one of the most painful things he must have felt was losing his wife. Having the reminder of her in his shack came to a point where he had to take down the picture because it made him more lonely, but he still kept the pieces that reminded him of her. As it says “On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre. These were relics of his wife. Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.” Before Santiago’s wife died he had someone in his life that he was close with and to spend time with even though he was fishing most of the time. Now he has the boy as his friend to keep him company and to help him.

When Santiago made his trip out on the sea he was so alone that he started to talk out loud and he didn't even realize it. It says, “He did not remember when he had first started to talk aloud when he was by himself. He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night sometimes when he was
It says, “He looked around for the bird now because he would have liked him for company. The bird was gone.” He was so lonely on the boat that after wishing so many times the boy was there when the bird came he took it for granted. Suddenly after the bird came the boat shook from a sudden movement of the fish the bird left leaving Santiago alone again. Now he realizes that the bird was someone to talk to instead of talking to himself. Also it's someone to keep him company than being alone in a boat in the middle of the