In Ernest Hemingway’s, The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway expresses Santiago to be an artistic visionary of realms between that of sleep and awake. “He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy” (Hemingway 25). Through exile and self-awareness, Santiago learns the true meaning of his artistic integrity from his speech with the marlin to his wise words of the sea, “But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because

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