Santiago began to wonder if he wouldn't have been better
off not hooking the fish. It has cost him his knife, some of the other tools of his
trade that he depends on and he is worried that he will not be able to fish once he
returns.
He also is beginning to wonder whether this fish
itself should have been left to live as it was so powerful and so majestic and won't be
appreciated alive or dead because it will only be a partial skeleton by the time he
returns to shore. The fish was noble and powerful and beautiful, but it is destroyed by
the sharks and the weather and the very long time it takes to return to
shore.
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