Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, a town west of Chicago. After graduating from high school, Hemingway, who refused to go to college, became a journalist at the Kansas City Star newspaper at the age of 18 and officially began his writing career. In 1918, Hemingway resigned as a journalist and tried to join the US military to observe the battles of the First World War. Hemingway failed the medical examination due to his vision defect and then transferred to the Red Cross Ambulance Team as an ambulance driver. From 1920 to 1931, Hemingway moved from Toronto to Paris, from Paris to Cuba, and Cuba to Key West. From 1937 to 1938, he was on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War as a war reporter. During World War II, he acted with the army as a reporter and participated in the battle to liberate Paris. After the outbreak of the Pacific War at the end of 1941, Hemingway converted his yacht into a cruiser to detect the actions of German submarines and provide intelligence to destroy the enemy. Hemingway was recruited as a spy in the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), which was the predecessor of a more widely known Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB. He also had been involved in work for the OSS(the wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II) as well as other U.S. agencies, including the FBI. On July 2, 1961, Hemingway ended his life with a shotgun in Idaho at the age of 62.

Hemingway wrote the novella The Old Man and the Sea in Cuba in 1951, published in 1952. It established Hemingway's prominent position in American and world literature. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Although the old man described by Hemingway is tragic, he has extraordinary qualities in him. He accepts failure calmly and faces death calmly and bravely. These "tough guys" embody Hemingway's philosophy of life and moral ideals, and never admit defeat. Fighter spirit and positive attitude towards life.

for the old man, every bit of victory paid a heavy price, and finally suffered an irretrievable defeat. However, in another sense, he is a winner. Because he does not succumb to fate, no matter how difficult the environment is, he will shows his courage, perseverance and wisdom to fight bravely. Although the huge marlin fish had lost, but the old man defended the "dignity of the human soul", showing that "a person's ability can be such a "tough guy" image, which is a typical Hemingway novel character. ", is a victorious loser, a failed hero.

In Hemingway’s writing skills, he used concise, lively and powerful dialogue, clean rhetoric, and natural rhyme to form a unique creative style.The theme of Hemingway’s novels is "the nature of human beings, human efforts and struggles, human pursuits and pains, human beliefs and struggles, human stubbornness and value, human intelligence and destiny, human courage, human dignity and soul "Whether in good times or adversity. They use actions to show their subjective consciousness of not fearing any powerful force. The truth they follow is "Destiny is always against people, no matter how hard you work, you will inevitably fail. Despite this, people still have to struggle hard and try to maintain their dignity. He can be physically broken, but always be strong in spirit.

The words in the Hemingway’s novel always encourages me, I learned many form them: the indestructible spirit of fights against the fate and the tranquility when facing a failure. He showed me a sample of hero and a great soul, and when we are facing the troubles in our life, we should learn from the old fisher and be our own hero.

A failure is not all terrible, it should be accepted calmly. Use all the strength and fight to the end, every failure is a step towards success. Failure is just a situation that needs more studying and trying.