... author whether it was good or bad still he managed to overcome it all and write some of the most interesting novels and short stories that still impact literature to this day. In my opinion Hemingway was a man above them all. I will now follow on with the positive criticism of Ernest Hemingway. "One of the great writers of our time ... who, honestly and undauntedly, reproduces the ... no comment from a person my stature. Hemingway's earlier novels and short stories were largely praised for their unique style. Paul Goodman, for example, was pleased with the "sweetness" of the writing in A ...

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... the sparse, powerful style that left such an indelible impact on the world of literature. As explored in an essay by Zoe Trodd, Hemingway's propensity for brevity was developed out of a sense that war had 'used up his words'. 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 ... ...

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... hero. During the war he was injured in Milan and he fell in love with a nurse who later left him for another man. This is when Hemingway began work on one of his most famous novels, A Farewell to Arms. After recovery, he moved and was hired for the Toronto Star. He married his first wife and then became a foreign correspondent for the newspaper and moved ... Biography). Authors like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, "decried the false ideals of patriotism that led young people to war, only to the benefit of materialistic elders. These writers held that the only truth was reality, and thus life ...

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