... format of his prose that he cleverly called "The Iceberg Principle." In a 1958 interview in "The Paris Review" Hemingway described his iceberg principle. "I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is 7/8 of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It ... Rises that Hemingway first introduced us to "The Iceberg Principle." The literary critic Philip Young, who has built a respectable reputation for his analysis of Hemingway literature, aides in the breakdown of the story to show the layers of the...

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