'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'
Charles Dickens, Hard Times

From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

The skeleton of the marlin implies the

The Old Man and the Sea epitomises