Conflicts of "The Old Man and the Sea"

The Old Man and the Sea is a very good book, but it is very simplistic in its speech and message. There is a little conflict when the Old Man is in his village, because everyone else in the village has no faith in him. They all have conflicting emotions about him, because he is well respected and loved, but he has not caught anything in an extremely long time, so they have no faith in him. The biggest conflict in The Old Man and the Sea is between the Old Man and the marlin that he is trying to catch for the majority of the book. There is much conflict between the Old Man and the marlin, because the marlin obviously does not want to be caught because it would be killed if it was. The Old Man really wants to catch the marlin, because if he does, the whole village will respect him even more and put all their faith back in him. The Old Man does eventually catch the marlin, which gains him back the faith of the villagers and the respect that he had lost. The last conflict in the book is the conflict between the Old Man and the sharks that come to attack the dead marlin that is lashed to the boat. The Old Man tries to save as much of his catch as he can by beating or killing all the sharks that he can, but eventually the sharks get the best of him because he runs out of weapons and they devour all of the marlin. The Old Man eventually makes it back to the village and his whole town is shown that he really does know how to fish and is still fully capable of doing so. Out of the three major conflicts that are in The Old Man and the Sea, two of them end up well for the Old Man, and according to a popular Meatloaf song, "Two out of three ain't bad".