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The aim of this paper is to search for the effectual meaning about the trace of life in ‘Alone’ by inquiring through Qu Yuan and Santiago as a Fisherman Image. It is very meaningful for two characters, Qu Yuan and Santiago, to try to embody a self-narration for their own ideal. Qu Yuan and Santiago tried to work out a code of personal conduct they could live by. Their true value about life of ‘Alone’ is reflected in Qu Yuan’s The Epigram of Fisherman (BC 343-BC 289) and Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Although two works are alienated much far from each other in time and space, their echo that the ‘Alone’ has endowed us with may be the same concept that rises above time and space. Whether Qu Yuan’s ‘Alone’ is his self-enjoyment or not, and Santiago’s ‘Alone’ is his self-fulfillment or not, their actions instruct us to strive for the embodiment of a self-narration, that is, accomplishment of our dream. The result is that the ‘Alone’ through Qu Yuan and Santiago as a Fisherman Image not only realizes how to deal with our surroundings but also provides mental domain and property, effectually and valuably, for those who suffer from the embodiment of a self-narration.