... 192) Kathleen Morgan tells it plainly: "Hemingway ruthlessly pares unnecessary words from his sentences...Hemingway avoids the lengthy simile...Hemingway's working vocabulary is colloquial and economical...Hemingway limits himself for the most part to words that are simple, colloquial, and familiar; this self-imposed limit in vocabulary is...a factor in the immediate recognition of the general Hemingway style noted ... by 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 o...

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... in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, in which each writer used elements of literature in various ways to create the literary classics for which they are famous. Great Expectations illustrated the life of Phillip Pirrip, known to the reader as simply Pip, and ... of each of the novels is intermingled with the first person point of view so that the attitude of both books changed with the attitude of their main characters. For example, when Pip was angry with himself, Dickens writes more aggressively and critically. Likewise, when Henry was with...

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