The old fisherman with no food and sleep, tolerance the pain and blow his hand cramps. He was very excited with he succeeded to weaken the Ma Lin surface and the harpoon. On the third day of the sea, he lashes marlin to his boat Because of it’s too big to be pulled into his boat. But in different numbers, four times in different numbers. Old fisherman bucket Kill sharks as far as possible and many weapons, he can summon, but only to find a huge Marlin skeleton his desperate defense leave. In the end, Santiago, who had lost his struggle, reached the shore and struggled in his little house. He fell asleep and dreamed of Africa and the lion. His efforts earned him great respect.

There have a battle between man and nature’s soul-stirring tragedy. Each access point victory in the elderly have paid a heavy price, the final failure was irreparable. However, in another sense, he is also a winner. Because he did not bow to fate, no matter how arduous the environment, he by his own courage, perseverance and wisdom were brave struggle. Although not keep the big marlin, but he was defending the “dignity of the human soul”, showing “a person’s ability to reach any level”, is a victory loser, a failed hero.

At last, among many well-known writers, Hemingway is the most world-famous for his objective and a short prose style. As the last, Hemingway’s novel published in his life, The Old Man and the Sea often reflect his unique writing style and language features. This paper discusses the language features and the writing style in The Old Man and the Sea. Of course, Hemingway used many techniques in this story, such as realism, suspense creation, monologue creation and so on. And the focus of this novel, especially on the characteristics of language and important writing style.

II. The Features of the Language in The Old Man and the Sea

   In this work, what we appreciate most is the language features. It contains many elements of the language features, such as language style, concise language style, vivid metaphor, rhetorical devices, the usage of repetition and so on, which are very unique in this work. The analysis of the linguistic features in The Old Man and the Sea are as follow:

2.1 Concise Language Style

   Concise and profound language style is Hemingway’s consistent writing features. In The Old Man and the Sea, the author uses concise language to describe and express emotion in the process of specific description. At the same time, thinking of the characteristics of the readers’ psychology and reading, Hemingway introduces the plot step by step to the readers in the overall layout of the novel. The concise sentences and profound linguistic styles let the readers feel the charm of art works.

On the other hand, this language style is also fully reflected in the description and interpretation. For example, in San Diego, only by simple language, not adding modification, not adding bedding, not expressing ideas and views, the author gives the readers a lot of space to think, feel and experience. The author uses a concise and plain language to show the image of a hero for readers, also showing the author’s writing style.

   2.1.1 Concise and Accurate Description of Action

Look at the process the elderly fisherman putting a bait into the water, “ before it was really light he had his baits out and was drifting with the current. Each bait hung head down with the shank of the hook inside the bait fish, tied and sewed solid and all the projecting part of the hook, the curve and the point, was covered with fresh sardines. Each line, as thick around as a big pencil, was looped onto a green- sapped stick so that any pull or touch on the bait would make the stick dip and each line had two forty- fathom coil which could be made fast to the other spare coils so that, if it were necessary, a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line.”(Hemingway)  The sun rises third times with “he tried to increase the tension, but the line had been taut up to the very edge of the breaking point since he had hooked the fish and he felt the harshness as he leaned back to pull and knew he could put no more strain on it.”(Hemingway) After a few rounds of battle with the big fish, “the old man skinned one side of him while he held his right foot on the fish’s head. Then he turned him over and skinned the other side and cut each side off from the head down to the tail.”(Hemingway)