... story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". Here, there is a clear indication of Hemingway's style - a notably masculine style, described with words like 'hard' and 'athletic'. The reviewer continues: "Mr. Hemingway knows how not only to make words be specific but how to arrange a collection of words ... beautiful sculpture beneath. (Hemingway might have taken issue with this metaphor - he preferred to think of writing as a workman's craft: "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over"....

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate