《老人与海》是根据真人真事的故事加工而成的小说，所以它既是一部现实主义的力作，又是一部有多层寓意且寓意很深的作品。这虽然是一个故事简单、篇幅不大的作品，但含义丰富，以下是小编整理的《老人与海》的英文读后感，供大家参考。

　　《老人与海》英文读后感

　　The Old Man and the Sea

　　I. Introduction

　　The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

　　Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899-July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Pairs, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as “the Lost Generation.” He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway settled in Cuba during 1939 to 1960 and said he was “ordinary Cubans.” After the success of the Cuban revolution, however, his emotional life is very complicated. He had fourth marriages through his whole life with the unrest and painful emotional life. Hemingway wrote during the period famous masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea. And his distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as “grace pressure”. Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.

　　II. The Story or A Summary of the Book

　　The background of the story The old man and the sea is in the twentieth Century Cuba. In this book, there are two important people, one is the old fish man called Santiago and the other is the little boy called Manolin. In a sense, they are more like a close friend and take care of each other. And the hero is the old fisherman Santiago who is fishing for eighty-four days without a fish and almost starving to death. For this reason, Manolin’s parents don’t let him follow the old man who is unlucky. However, the old man refuses to admit the defeat and never give up. In his inner heart, he believes that he can get a big fish with many years