The end of The Old Man and The Sea

At the end of the story, the old man's catch of large marlin is taken by a shark, but this does not affect him. The old man has fulfilled his life's ambition, for he has proved himself capable of catching big fish, and through this Hemingway wants to express his hatred for those predators, while the huge, white marlin bone on the beach serves as a witness to the old man's fierce chase with the marlin and his desperate struggle with the shark, which can be said to be a symbol of both victory and defeat, and it is this subtle unity of opposites and It is this subtle unity of opposites and transformation between each other that allows us to see once again the hardened Hemingway-like spirit that clings to it.