Ernest Hemingway's values according to "The Old Man and the Sea"

It is easy to tell Ernest Hemingway's values in The Old Man and the Sea, because the qualities that are emphasized in the book are qualities that Ernest Hemingway values. Ernest Hemingway valued patience, courage, kindness, and loyalty. He shows that he values patience in a lot of different places in the book. He shows it through the Old Man waiting for so long to catch the marlin and barely even moving through the whole experience. Another way he shows it is that he lets the Old Man wait to catch fish for months, and the Old Man does not complain about it at all. Hemingway shows that he values courage by having the Old Man go up against many sharks and fighting them all with barely anything, just a few sharp objects. He also shows that he values courage because the Old Man must stand up for himself to the rest of the villagers that do not believe he can catch any more fish. Hemingway shows that he values kindness in many different ways. One of the ways is by having the Boy be extremely kind to the Old Man, because he gives the Old Man food when the Old Man did not have any, and the Boy stayed with the Old Man in his house, even though his house was awful. The villagers are also kind to the Old Man after he brings in the marlin carcass, because they realize that he still does have what it takes to be a good fisherman. The last quality that Hemingway values is loyalty. Hemingway shows that he values loyalty by keeping the Boy loyal to the Old Man, even though no one else in the village believes in him. The Old Man also stays true to himself and has the self-confidence to know that he can do it. Ernest Hemingway valued many good qualities in other people, and he let that shine through when he wrote The Old Man and the Sea.