Talking to himself

One thing I didn’t really get was that Santiago talked to himself throughout the story. Every once and a while he would be thinking about something, and then he would say aloud his response or like the end of the thought. I do not think that he is crazy; it’s just a little bizarre and hard to explain talking to oneself. At one point he says that the other fishermen that go out on their own are starting to bring radios and they listen to baseball games and whatnot. I think that Santiago would have really enjoyed that during the times he was bored or wanting to have the boy to talk to. He says that he does just like being at on the sea though. Maybe that’s enough for him and he is happy just listening to the waves, but talking to himself is just kind of weird. I think that it would be less weird if he was just saying everything that he was thinking, but that’s not what he did. He would be thinking about something, ask a somewhat rhetorical question to himself, and then he would say his answer or thoughts on the matter out loud. Even when he was talking about the other fishermen that have the radios to listen to the baseball games he goes through this same process that makes him seem even crazier. It’s almost like the inner monologue on the TV show Scrubs. All of his thoughts are in his voice and then he says the ending part just like J.D. does in the show. I kind of want to know if he does this when he is around other people because if he does it would be practically identical to what J.D. does in Scrubs. Personally I do not think that Santiago is crazy. I think maybe he just has a weird thought process and it helps to say parts of his thoughts out loud.