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The old man was _____. short and fat thin and gaunt short and thin

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Answer:

Thin and Gaunt.

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Old Man and The Sea" is a novella written by Ernest Hemingway.

In this novella, the old man's name is Santiago. He had been unlucky to catch any fish in eighty-four days.

The old man in the novella is described as "thin and gaunt" he also have "wrinkles on the back of the neck". He also had brown blotches which he got because of skin cancer. He had "deep-creased" scars because of handling fish on the cords.

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