... 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, and concrete descriptions of ... 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...

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