After sustaining an injury to his left hand, this character laments that that could have been avoided if his servant was with him to wet the coils, and the novel states that everything about this character is "old except his eyes…which remain cheerful and undefeated."
This character removes the fading picture of his wife from his wall and keeps it in his shirt. Called salao by two enemies, this man later compares the incapacity of his hand to an athlete's bone spurs. Pedrico provides him with newspapers which report the daily (*) baseball scores. After sustaining an injury to his left hand, this character laments that that could have been avoided if his servant was with him to wet the coils, and the novel states that everything about this character is "old except his eyes…which remain cheerful and undefeated." In the final moments of the novel, he falls asleep dreaming of lions playing on the beach, as this DiMaggio-loving character is visited by his boy-servant Manolin in his Cuban home where he dies peacefully. FTP, name this fisherman who ends an 84-day dry spell by catching a huge marlin in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
This character removes the fading picture of his wife from his wall and keeps it in his shirt.
{Santiago}