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n he was on the sea. He needed the boy to be his companion to talk with him when it was necessary and he also needed the boy to be his assistant when he needed help. So the leaving of Manolin and the ruthlessness of people around were the necessity to formation the old man's tragedy. 3. The Old Man’s Tragic Ending. The first tragic result that he received was to be sneered by the other fishermen in the Terrace after his eighty four days of failure in hooking fish. These young people were not warm to him. He was just a joke in their eyes. How about the older fishermen? Hemingway said in this novel like this:" Others, of the older fishermen, looked at him and were sad. But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen (Hemingway, 3)”. Though the older fishermen felt sad for him, what they did was not to comfort and encourag him, but to avoid talking about it. Maybe they did not want to show their fear about this truth. Maybe they feared facing the same situation one day. In a word, there was no one sympathizing with him except the boy. The second tragic result he got was that he had not taken the whole fish back. The old man was pulled by the big marlin for three days and nights. He killed it at last because of his insistence. This was a perfect result. But this was not the final result. He was fermenting his own tragedy when he killed it. This tragedy took place when the groups of sharks came to attack the big fish. He had not taken the whole fish back home but just a head, a tail and the whole spine although he used all his strength to fight against the sharks and drove them away. Going far out for three days and nights, dealing with the big marlin for three days and nights, fighting against the groups of sharks on his way home, the old man got nothing at last. Was not it a tragedy? B. Analysis of the Big Marlin for Tragic Ambience The big marlin lived in the place far from the shore of Gulf Stream. People seldom sailed far out to the sea. So it lived in this vast beautiful area and enjoyed freedom. It was growing stronger and stronger in this environment and would originally live happily until its death. However, the old man's sailing out changed its fate. This was the fish's tragedy. The marlin was a clever fish which had stratagems. It struggled against the old man for three days and nights working continuously. But the tragedy was that the old man it happened to meet with was a well-prepared and indomitable man so that it was inevitable for the fish to escape. This was the miserable scene:" The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength", " He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it(Hemingway, 97)”. However, this was not miserable enough. It was bound to the skiff after it died because it was too long to be put into the skiff. This was the beginning of its bad luck. It was attacked by the sharks four times. In the first attack, the marlin was bit in the flesh just above the tail and the old man could hear the clicking chop of the shark's teeth and "the noise of skin and flesh ripping on the big fish (Hemingway, 77)”. The marlin lost about 40 pounds of the meat this time. In the second attack, the two sharks bit the marlin ferociously on its body which caus