Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

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Ernest Hemingway had a significant influence on twentieth-century fiction, and most of his works are considered classics today. His work is best known for his minimalist style, accessibility to readers, and for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of narration. His works also paved the way for future writers to use the style of Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway influenced American literature through his writing style, use of character, and his symbolism.
Ernest Hemingway is widely recognized as one of the most skillful authors of literary minimalism. Minimalism focuses on the surface description of a topic. Minimalism avoids the use of adverbs and allows context to dictate meaning. Hemingway started his career as a journalist at the Kansas City Star. It was his responsibility to write concisely using minimal words and space. “The …show more content…

Hemingway believed if an author writes about personal experiences and is able to convey those experiences to the reader with distinct confidence, the author can omit important parts of the story and the reader will have a true feeling of the author’s intensions. Hemingway came about this theory upon completing his short story, “Out of Season,” "I omitted the real end [of "Out of Season"] which was that the old man hanged himself. This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything ... and the omitted part would strengthen the story." (Hemingway). This theory is compared to an iceberg because the tip of the iceberg tells the observer that there is something greater and more substantial underneath. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. If the writer knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit that he knows and the reader will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them” (Oliver 322). That is how Hemingway approached story

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