In the Old Man and the Sea, is the conflict between Santiago and the sea resolved?The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Yes and no.  While the old fisherman Santiago after
eighty-five days of failure proves his mettle on the sea by catching the huge Marlin,
craftily and skillfully maintaining his hold on it for days by resisting the pain of the
line cutting through his hand and by preventing the fish from taking the line from him
until he finally succeeds in bringing it in and securing it to his skiff, he loses his
battle against the ravages of the sharks. 

So, when he
returns, having survived on the sea and having captured a huge fish, Santiago does
receive the recognition of his victory over the fish as a man. However, with his failure
to win the conflict with Nature, Santiago has failed as a fisherman.  Consequently, he
does not regain the respect of the other fishermen.  For, when Manolin comes to bring
Santiago a hot can of coffee, the old man tells the boy, "They beat me, Manolin." 
Manolin replies, "He didn't beat you.  Not the
fish."

Because he feels defeated as a fisherman, Santiago
tells Manolin that Pedrico can chop up the skiff and use it in fish traps and the boy
can have the spear.  Then, he tells the boy that he spat up something strange, and when
he did spit while out to sea, Santiago has said to the last
shark,

"Eat
that, galanos, and make a dream you've killed
man."

Santiago also tells the
boy that he has felt something break in his chest.   His words indicate that as a
fisherman Santiago is finished; in fact, as a man he is also defeated and will probably
die.