Joe Dimaggio represents excellence in performance, with the longest hitting streak in baseball history. He does not need for his team, the Yankees, to win, because winning is, in some ways, incidental to the individual's performance. Even if you may lose (the fisherman does lose the fish, and the fish loses its life) but each of them performs with courage, which Hemingway defines as "grace under pressure." You may win, you may lose, but you can ALWAYS define yourself by courage. Hemingway was much more interested in knowing how to live with honor than in trying to figure out what it all meant.
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