... so. Hemingway's style seems to have been a constantly developing one when a chronological analysis is done to his varied works. In his discussion of the prose style of The Old Man and the Sea in "Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Old Man and the Sea-, 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."" Following on the heels of American novelists like Henry James and, e...

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... 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 ... is a parable, but one for life itself, and thus readers who search for other allegorical meaning inevitably reduce the grandeur of the text." This context was once brought ...

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