“The dialogue is brilliant. If there is better dialogue being written today I do not know where to find it. More then any other talk I can call to mind, it is alive with the rhythms and idioms, the pauses and suspensions and innuendoes and short hands of living speech.” This description of Hemingway’s pr

The Sun Also Rises is an informal book that on the surface is relaxed (drinking, partying, sex, etc.) and beneath the surface is a much more, satisfying, in-depth story (Jake’s inability to have sex, love between characters, outlooks on life and morals). Everything in the book moves in unison. Example-trout fishing moves us smoothly into Spain and the bullfights. At Pamplona, the tension everyone has been ignoring builds up slowly, and then the tension breaks with the climax of the events (the fiesta). Then there is Jake, separate, rehabilitating himself, he gets rid of his hangovers in the ocean and then it ends. Jake is returned to Brett like before, resulting in a complete circle from the beginning. It is here that the reader realizes that we were never taken anywhere, instead we have been taken nowhere and that, is the point.

Shortly before his suicide in 1961, Hemingway published what would be his last example of the prose style that had made him so famous over his career. The Old Man and the Sea is a story that tells of an old man, Santiago waging a great battle on his tiny boat with a large fish for many days. The story his told with grace and excellence. Malcolm Cowley notes that Hemingway “uses the oldest and shortest words, the simplest constructions, but gives them a new value-as if English were a strange language that he had studied or invented for himself and was trying to write in its original purity.” However, Hemingway may have been to far ahead of his time.

The Old Man and the Sea could have been over a thousand pages long and had every character in the village in it and all the processes of the way they made their living, were born, educated, bore children, etc. That is done excellently and well by other writers. In your writing you are limited by what has already been done satisfactorily. So I have tried to learn to do something else. First I have tried to eliminate everything unnecessary to conveying experience to the reader so that after he or she has read something it will become part of his or her experience and seem actually to have happened.

The publishers of The Sun Also Rises published the story because “they found especially in this novel, that Hemingway derived a certain style that allowed him to prevent his people and his actions not as perceptible through a literary medium, but as if immediate.” Through his prose he was able to develop his characters extremely well with the least amount of words possible. “Some find it evident that its almost as if he goes out of his way to avoid descriptive or expansive methods. Its felt that this results in an effect of great honesty and reality.” Hemingway chooses his characters very carefully. His protagonist are “shadowy, mysterious figures whom he never allows to be confused or weak.” In The Sun Also Rises he defends Jake well and the reader involuntarily gives him their sympathy. Deemed impotent due to a war wound Jake is forced to accept his disability. His disability keeps him from the love of his life, Lady Brett Ashley, because she does not want to be with someone whom she can not have sexual intercourse with. Like many of Hemingway’s characters they escape there pasts by rarely talking of it thereby accepting their disabilities. In The Sun Also Rises the story ends having gone nowhere. Jake�

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