Ernest Hemingway's Writing Style Analysis

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The writing expertise of Hemingway and Faulkner, commonly referred to as Hemingwayesque and Faulknerian, are both styles that seem to parallel off of one another. One of the best ways to understand Hemingway is to read Faulkner, and vice versa. The obscurantism of Faulkner and the attentiveness of Hemingway foster their syntax and diction, as well as their similarities and differences. Faulkner displays Gothic remnants in Absalom, Absalom!, while Hemingway creates a more minimalist prose. Hemingway and Faulkner, as seen in The Sun Also Rises and Absalom Absalom! both possess uniquely different writing styles, while being able to hold the ability to parallel off of eachother's themes and diction.
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Hemingway is shown to forge his own methodology in The Sun Also Rises that creates a melancholy tone that brings about feelings of love and devastation in the reader.. The Iceberg Theory, a theory that portrays meaning to a character without directly stating what the reader should be, adapts Hemingway’s complexity and messages into the novel. This technique is used for the portrayal of Jake Barnes, the foremost example being when Barnes acknowledges his wound. After Georgette asks, "What's the matter, you sick?", Barnes replies with a simple, "Everybody's sick. I'm sick, too,” (Hemingway 23). This allows the reader to sense the scope of Barnes’ dilemma, as well as the psychological pain that Barnes is stricken with.. Barnes must also find a way to live in a world where he can create a personal order that is “neither based on an abstraction nor belied by experience” (Civello). This brings in the moral sense of the novel, portrayed by all characters in the novel. The characters are continuously unable to lessen their individual pains, resulting in the inability to find morality in American Culture. Hemingway's ethos and the stoic condition of Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley allows him to illustrate the dark view of morality. The Sun Also Rises shows us the good, the bad, and the misunderstood of the lost generation, with the help of

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