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Ernest Hemingway's Style of Modernism For many years, writers and poets constructed their writings based on a traditional writing scheme and they rarely veered away from the traditional style of writing. This older style of writing and ideas would still be the main style today if not for modernists such as Ernest Hemingway. Modernist’s works are often characterized by their construction out of fragments in order to convey reality. Ernest Hemingway, author of “Snows of Kilimanjaro,” is most definitely considered a modernist writer because he writes in fragments through abrupt shifts of perception and memories in order to express the discontinuity and disorganization of love. Ernest Hemingway proves that he is a modernist writer when he writes …show more content…

For example, in “Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Hemingway jumps straight from a conversation and directly into Harry’s mind when he writes, “You do it […] I’m tired” and then he writes immediately after, “Now in his mind he saw a railway station at Karagatch and he was standing with his pack […]” (Hemingway 828). Hemingway writes stories, such as this one, with fragments of the character’s memories in order to make the reader feel as if he is mentally joined with the character and to make it seem as if everything is unorganized and jumping back and forth. Hemingway’s use of memory fragments is one of the main things that the majority of modernist writers us. He uses these fragments of memories to allow the reader to understand how Harry feels about love and his indecisiveness that comes along with …show more content…

Hemingway uses Harry’s memory fragments and shifts of the reader’s perception toward Harry in order to allow the reader to fully understand how chaotic love is. Hemingway jumps from a conversation between Harry and the woman immediately into Harry’s memories and says, “He had whored the whole time […] and he had failed to kill his loneliness, […] he had written her, the first one, the one who left him, a letter telling her how he had never been able to kill [his loneliness]” (Hemingway 834). Hemingway’s use of fragments allows the reader to not only hear how chaotic love is, but also directly feel the disorganization of love. Hemingway’s fragmentation forces the reader to feel just as indecisive as Harry in order to fully convey the reality of

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