Santiago remembers how DiMaggio had got pain in his leg. He himself had won the math against a Negro. He had done it by hard work. He now needs the same strength to over-come the marlin. Santiago catches a dolphin for his super. He sleeps for sometime and dream of the lion seen on the African beach.
After two days, the fish starts circling. It comes in the man’s reach. But he is too tired to harpoon it. On the seventh turn of the fish, the man kill It. He touches it lovely. It is more than fifteen hundred pounds in weight. He ties the fish to his boat and sees that it is two feet longer than the boat. He than starts his homeward journey. He rests and feels that he whole experience was a dream