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not only learns the capability of fishing, but also the spirit of striving to become stronger and the responsibilities of a man. The young and tender shoulder has already been used to steel him, though “he felt drowsy when walking”, he still says “This is nothing, true man will do it.”⑥ Rhythmic words sufficiently reveal Hemingway’s unyielding character. Under the subconsciousness of the old man, the boy is another stage of his life, one can’t dream two of his own, and so he “has not dreamed of the boy”. The boy’s leaving is the decision of his parents, the old man is unwilling to let the boy feel embarrassed, so he does not let the boy follow him, he does not let the boy infect with his bad luck, the boy insists coming back for several times, though the old man’s failure is put ahead, the reality confirmed the failure of the old man，the old man declined for many times, but which can not hold back the child. He is not afraid of failure, he scorns the failure, facing the failure bravely, because in the boy’s heart, the old man is a “wonderful fisher” and different from the others. The boy is helping the return of Hemingway’s “graceful demeanor”. The appearance of the little boy is not an accessory, which has meaning of symbol, he is the maintenance of the future life’s extension, and he is also the power source of the unyielding man who never bows to difficulties. The old man is just under the boy’s encouragement and struggle hard, he realizes that: “If the boy is not here, I have been died out already.”⑦So the child brings sorrow and happiness, he brings the hope, the society of the human can also extend uninterruptedly. Taking the only boy whom he can depend on r for survival is Hemingway’s unique idea. Taking away is because the old man “has bad luck” and the boy’s parents force him to claim kinship with them. Also because of Hemingway living in a society that tends to be decadent and declined, to be a upright and dear-headed intellectual, at one side, he saw through the hypocritical and corrupt society, though he is brave, a long time’s struggle made him unable to do as much as he wishes to, and he can not change the backward reality anyhow. So he feels depressed and uncertain of the wishes and victory, he turns into a victor in spirit gradually, is eager to use the victory of spirit to make him gain comfort and freedom from sorrow. Under this mentality, Hemingway reveals sympathy to the weak man and scorn the rich, so the child makes decision to return to the side of the old man when the old man feels lonely and sad. The return of the boy reveals that he turns a blind eye to the authority of his father and the superstition to the fate. Before the child goes back, the struggle of the old man is isolate; the words of the child make clear that he becomes mature under the move and inspire, he faintly feels happy and the wish of brightness. So the image of the boy is the elaboration of the writer in making out the line of the story， and the information that the boy reflects is beyond the information that the writer hopes on the fish，the old man and sea. The boy helps him when the others deserts. “If the boy were here”. The story mentions it for nine times, which symbolizes that the child is the strength for the weak man when he fails and is disappointed. 3. The Sea — the Symbol of Hemingway’s Survival Environment. The sea is the symbol that stands for the world and society where man must live. The sea is boundless, full of various m