《老人与海》的故事虽然非常简单,但从书中很多内证来看,海明威显然有意煞费苦心地把多层次的涵义融合在一个简单的故事中。该作品主要体现了四个不同层次的涵义:英雄主义,悲剧启示,基督精神以及创作象征。 Although the story of “The Old Man and the Sea” is very simple, from the many internal evidences in the book, it is clear that Hemingway has painstakingly taken the multi-level connotation into a simple story. The work mainly embodies the four different levels of meaning: heroism, tragic revelation, Christian spirit and creative symbol.