... "A Farewell to Arms." On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words by war"."(Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives, and concrete descriptions of specific objects all countered with minimalism the problem of "used up words." (Bloom 209) Furthermore, Hemingway's lifelong ... virtue of a story well told, but Hemingway wrote in a way that surprised and delighted critics and readers alike. He shattered conventions and changed the landscape of literature f...

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