Characteristics Of Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway final assignment.

1. What is characteristic of Hemingway’s style of writing? Use examples from the texts to support your characterisation.

A great deal of Hemmingway’s literary creations and works take a starting point in the writing style “minimalism”. The minimalistic writing style can conveniently be visualised and represented with the picture of an ice berg lying in the water. An ice berg only reveals the very top of itself, which, in relation to Hemmingway’s literature, means that the narrator only mentions what would be visible or perceivable in the situation. Hereby the reader would be compelled to think for himself and read between the lines in order to comprehend the ‘deeper’ meaning. The process of being told only the top

Compare the stories ”Indian Camp” and “A Very Short Story” in terms of main characters, themes and style of writing. Use short quotations from the texts to support your assumptions. Discuss whether the stories are biographical.

The story ‘Indian Camp’ and ‘A very short story’ has many similarities in the matter of themes characters and writing style, and even though both stories are fiction, one could argue that they, in a sense, are quiet autobiographically written. First of all, the style of writing is a clear example of similarity between the two stories, in the way that they both take starting point in minimalism. ‘A very short story’ is most definitely loaded with this particular writing style, which, for example, comes to show in the description of Nick’s relationship with his girl Luz. “There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it. They all liked Luz”. Instead of saying that the fact that others like her turns him on, he applies that little sentence that will make the reader think for himself what’s going on. In ‘Indian Camp’ the same principal appears. Instead of telling the reader, that Uncle George is the father of the parturient woman’s child, we’re simply informed that “Uncle George gave the Indians Cigars.” Furthermore, Hemmingway has mentally experienced many of the events that both protagonists has gone through in the two stories. In that connection it is pretty clear that his own life and biography have had a great impact on the