Autumn’s flame dances in my eyes

I’m not going to read through the book to find a sentence that is symbolic, simply because I tend to look at the bigger picture. The whole story is symbolic, mainly the fish and the fisherman. There’s an old man, who is sacrificing everything at this point to catch this huge fish. He’s been hanging on to the line for one night + a day and a half. Then there’s this fish with a hook in its cheek who is pulling the fisherman in his boat and he won’t stop. Two people who want something so badly, they won’t stop fighting for it. Constantly and repetitively pulling each other to the metaphorical cliff and holding them there. Finally the fisherman saw the big picture, which is the most symbolic part of this whole sequence.

“Unless sharks come,” he said aloud. “If sharks come, God pity him and me.”