... 5) Hemingway would always insist on writing about what he knew and refused to exaggerate or speculate, choosing instead to write characters he understood who spoke about things he had experienced. A word often used to describe aspects of Hemingway's prose or the central element of his style as a whole is 'simple', but this should not be taken as a criticism or a ... from criticism by its very nature. His style remains the most powerful example of the effectiveness of understatement and the possibilities of intentional diction, and the primary contender in the ˜writer as artist' and ˜wri...

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