" (Bloom 209) Furthermore, Hemingway's lifelong adherence to journalistic style and the enduring legacy of his writing are due to this brevity. .
The Development of a Style.
Hemingway's style, as we have already noted, is so iconic as to be unmistakable. As we have shown, it was praised almost immediately in The New York Times as being "unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature"." (Marital) Though the specifics of his unique and revolutionary style are well known to students of Ernest Hemingway, it is worth our time to revisit what it is exactly that makes his style so notable.
Bernard Bereson summarized brilliantly what it is about Hemingway's prose that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. No real artist symbolizes or allegorizes - and Hemingway is a real artist - but every real work of art exhales symbols and allegories"." (Hemingway, Ernest 785) The fundamental piece of this letter is the characterization of Hemingway as a real artist. Implying that clearly, there are people who are false artists, or that many who call themselves or are called artist are doing so incorrectly. .
Hemingway is frequently seen as an artist who has created an entirely new style of American fiction, one that adheres to truer ideas of objectivity, masculinity and strength. As we will discuss at length further down, Hemingway drew a great deal of his style and influence from his time at the Kansas City Star and other newspapers. He absorbed the objective, fact-based writing style of the newspaper article and made it his own, applying the lessons from the Kansas City Star's style guide to all of his subsequent work. .
"It was at the Star that Hemingway learned the lessons of style and habits of thought that he would retain and profit from throughout his career as a writer.