1. Hemingway's Style and Journalistic Influences
It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... Hemingway's style appealed to the newspaper writer because it was the same type of writing he was used to using - short, sharp and functional. ... (Hemingway, Ernest 785) The fundamental piece of this letter is the characterization of Hemingway as a real artist. ... (Hemingway, Short 192) Kathleen Morgan tells it plainly: "Hemingway ruthlessly pares unnecessary words from his sentences...Hemingway avoids the lengthy simile...Hemingway's wor...
- Word Count: 5359
- Approx Pages: 21
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate