导语：下面是yjbys小编整理的一篇关于老人与海这本小说的英语读后感，希望对大家有帮助。

　　"The old man and the sea" created a classic tough guy image. A man named sangdeya brother Cuban old fisherman, a man fishing alone in the 48 days after, have gained nothing caught a huge marlin. This is the old man never seen nor heard a big fish said his boat was two feet longer than the. Jin also big fish, dragging the boat drift for two days and two nights, the elderly have never experienced a difficult test in this two days and two nights, finally the barb, tied to the bow. But then they met a shark, the old man and the sharks were life-and-death struggle, the big marlin was eaten by sharks, fish skeleton old man finally dragged home only a bare.

　　Why not let the elderly Hemingway final victory? Novel in the words of the elderly: "a person is not born to be defeated", "a man can be destroyed, but not defeated." This is the "old man and the sea" to reveal the philosophy. Undeniably, as long as one would have defects. When a person recognizes this shortcoming and tried to overcome it and not go to it, no matter finally caught a full marlin or an empty skeleton, which have not really matter, because a person's life has value in the hunt Marlins in the process of fully embodied. Have their own pursuit of the ideal, struggle, he is not a winner? The old fisherman is wrong and the courage to challenge their own courage and confidence. Secular outlook from the perspective of victory, the old fisherman is not the final winner, because even though he began to beat the big marlin, but eventually the big marlin let sharks eat, he just took the big marlin bones house back to shore, that is to say, the shark is the winner. However, in the eyes of idealists, the old fisherman is a winner, because he has never been to sea to the big marlin sharks more compromise and not to surrender. As music master Beethoven said, "I can be destroyed, but can never be conquered".

　　Human nature is a powerful, humanity itself has its own limits, but it is because of the old fisherman such people again and again to challenge the limits, beyond them, this limit was extended again and again, and again a greater challenge in front of human beings. In this sense, the old fisherman sangdeya brother this hero, whether they challenge limit is success or failure, is always worthy of our respect. Because, he brings us is the most noble human self-confidence!