Code Hero

                       Critics have succeeded in dividing Hemingway's major characters into two  categories - the Hemingway hero and the code hero. Earl Rovit calls them "The Tyro" and "The Tutor". The Hemingway hero is either a young boy or a young man and is learning to live in the world where there is a chaos, violence, uncertainty and anxiety. Whereas the Hemingway hero is young and inexperienced, lost and confused in the valueless world, the code hero is usually an older man who has become what he had to become. He has realized the potential and known the area of his operation. He is usually a professional, a bull-fighter, a fisherman, a veteran soldier or a prize fighter. He is sure to excel in the area of his choice and does not easily step out of that. He possesses immense resources of courage and endurance. Since he has known how to excel he also knows how to face defeat with dignity. 
                         In Hemingway's novels and short stories the code hero sets an example for the Hemingway hero to imitate if he possibly can, while the Hemingway hero admires him. The former finds the latter standard of conduct of high.
                          Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea", in spite of his old age, exhaustion, hunger and the knowledge that he might eventually love ,does not let the marlin escape. He fights to its better end until he is successful. It is with the same courage and dignity that he defends his prize against the sharks. He knows that it is a useless struggle and it would be too much of luck to get away with his prize especially in the big sea and when the marlin is bleeding but to give us would be unmanly.

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