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It is often difficult to tell a person’s true motives, agenda or personality. This difficulty may be as a result of the secrecy of the individual in consideration, where he wishes to conceal his true self, or due to his confusion. This is to say that someone may be confused as to who he or she is, and their actual self will only be evident when faced with a somewhat challenging circumstance. A person’s true identity may, therefore, remain a secret for quite a long time until it doesn’t. You will be surprised at how little you know even when it comes those we consider as our closest relations.
Ernest Hemingway, in the old man by the sea emphatically highlights this idea when he writes,” He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish” (Hemingway and Miller 2007.)Many people struggling with identity crisis often find themselves as not being appreciated by society, or that their efforts yield nothing despite their hard work. This is precisely the case with Hemingway’s protagonist Santiago. The old fisherman is portrayed as someone who is struggling with too much in his chosen profession. He goes on many fruitless fishing expeditions, the result of which ends in him being deserted by his younger and more energetic partner who may well have been his good luck when he encountered his biggest catch yet, Marlin.
Sometimes people are sha…