... that war had 'used up his words'. This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "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 ... 's writing. He demonstrates time and time again that he is capable of breaking his own rules. Pilar's story in chapter 10 of For Whom the Bell Tolls maintains the precision and i...

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