SETTING.

The fundamental space of the statement, the sea, is also a protagonist. For this we can affirm that in the "Old man and the sea” the exterior spaces prevail. There is no presence of a meticulous description of the sea, she cannot be, but the narrator, across the look of the old fisherman, speaks constant about the wind direction, about the breeze, about the reflex of the sea, about the harmful effect of the Sun on his eyes, about the fish that they find in him. We know that it is a question of the Caribbean Sea - since the action happens in Cuba, near Havana.

Also one refers to some interior space; in I make concrete, the cabin in which the fisherman lives. Of this one it is said that one was finding way arrives from the shore of the sea. It is a hut of only a quarter, which has a table, a chair, a bed and a place to cook with coal. The local poverty speaks to us also about the social condition of the protagonist, a poor fisherman who does not have to buy either food or fodders to go fishing. The cabin places in a people close to Havana, of which there are named other houses and the Terrace, the local bar.