The Old Man and the Sea Intrigues Me

     I've always been intrigued about Hemingway's writing.  I visited his house in Key West when my father and I took a trip there when I was younger.  I didn't know why the house was important when I visited all those years ago, but I do remember it having an air about it.  It definetly seemed important to my young brain, but I didn't know why.  Now I know he is known as one of the greatest writers in American Literature and is known for his incredibly concise writing.  I also know that he wrote a lot of things about the depressing nature of WWI as he served in the war.  Another thing that I know about Hemingway was that he was an avid fisherman.  Obviously, we would have gotten along well.  Of all of his work that I hear about, the name that is said the most is The Old Man and the Sea.  I know that it is about fishing at some capacity, so I would enjoy it in that respect, but I imagine it would offer much more.  Glancing through his Wikipedia page (Ooh Wikipedia!  How rebellious I am.), it appears that Hemingway had four spouses, lived in many places including Cuba, served in WWI, went on safari in Africa and eventually killed himself while living in Idaho.  He obviously had a troubled life and saw and thought about a lot of things allowing him to offer up a lot of wisdom.  I'm sure that there are many wonderful nuggets of insight into life, human nature and all those other things that we read literature to find, tucked away in The Old Man and the Sea.  So, of all the authors and books that I could think of off the top of my head, Hemingway and The Old Man and the Sea is certainly the book that I would like to read and will make sure I do at some point.