《老人与海》是美国现代著名作家厄内斯特.海明威的著名中篇小说之一,这部小说为海明威赢得了1953年的美国普利策奖和1954年的诺贝尔文学奖。一直以来,国内外的很多学者和文学爱好者对这部小说进行了细致、深入的研究,侧重点一直集中在作品中硬汉形象的塑造、悲剧意识的刻画、主题的虚无思想和小说写作特色等方面。 “The Old Man and the Sea” is one of the famous novella of Ernest Hemingway, a famous modern American writer. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize of 1953 and the Nobel Prize of Literature of 1954 for Hemingway. All along, many scholars and literary amateurs at home and abroad have carried out a detailed and in-depth study on the novel, focusing on the shaping of the tough guy’s image, the description of tragedy consciousness, the theme’s nihilistic thinking and novel writing features aspect.