BROKE MH HEART 💔
Although his marlin, had been eaten down to the bone and essentially ruined, there was a light through the cracks. He will be fishing with his boy soon, he won’t be obsessed with the idea of the fish, and I think Hemingway hinted at those tourists buying the tail so maybe the old man did make a little money from it. And he had impressed evryone despite it being ruined, as well as killing a shark.