... . This is not so. Hemingway's style seems to have been a constantly developing one when a chronological analysis is done to his varied works. In his discussion of the prose style of The Old Man and the Sea in "Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Old Man and the Sea-, Malcolm Cowley notes that Hemingway "uses the oldest and shortest words, the simplest ... were a strange language that he had studied or invented for himself and was trying to write in its original purity."" Following on the heels of American novelists like Henry James and, even earlier, Herman Melville, to whom Hemingwa...

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