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2.2.3 Difference in Personality
 
Robinson is not a person who was born with courage to confront the adversities. He is not a man who is eager to live stably. But owing to his rebellious thoughts about sailing, he is always faced with various adversities.

Just as Robinson said, he had a dismal prospect of his condition. It is easy to see that Robinson also felt miserable. Though the adversity came unexpectedly, and Robinson also complained about his condition in the beginning, he can convert his thought to another one.　　

  But something always returned swift upon me to check these thoughts, and to reprove me; and particularly one day, walking with my gun in my hand by the seaside, I was very pensive upon the subject of my present condition, when Reason, as it were, expostulated with me the other way, thus: “Well, you are in a desolate condition, this true, but pray remember, where are the rest of you? Did not you come eleven of you into the boat? Where are the ten? Why were not they saved and you lost? Why were you singled out? Is it better to be here, or there?” And then I pointed to the sea. All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them and with what worse attends them. (Daniel Defoe, 49)
   
It is his transposing thoughts that changed his attitudes towards life. When he felt miserable about his condition, he thought of his companions’ misfortunes. He understood that his condition is not bad compared with them. As he said: “All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them and with what worse attends them.” It is just the same as the truth that to lose is another way to gain. There is no doubt that Robinson lost many things, such as his companions, his comfortable life…But he got more. He was survived, which is the most important for him. That is enough. Life is everything. Where there is life, there is hope.
 
Besides, Robinson knows how to set the good against the evil to enjoy the comforts. It is for all these personalities make him finally go to his homeland.

Hemingway's ideal of manhood is nearly inseparable from the ideal of heroism discussed above. To be a man is to behave with honor and dignity: to not succumb to suffering, to accept one's duty without complaint, and most importantly, to display a maximum of self-control. The representation of femininity, the sea, is characterized expressly by its caprice and lack of self-control; "if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them" (30). The representation of masculinity, the marlin, is described as (great, beautiful, calm, and noble, and Santiago steels him against his pain by telling himself, "Suffer like a man. Or a fish," referring to the marlin. In Hemingway's ethical universe, Santiago shows us not only how to live life heroically but in a way befitting a man.
 
It is for Santiago’s destiny and personality Hemingway draws a distinction between the two different types of success: outer, material success and inner, spiritual success. While Santiago clearly lacks the former, however he got spirit success.
 
III. Literary Images of Santiago and Robinson

3.1 Santiago— a Code Guy                  

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