Ernest Hemingway Style Essay

“Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.” Ernest Hemingway a brilliant writer, lover, and tragic man has forever influenced the literature world. He continues to intrigue and mesmerize his audience with his great novels and short stories. Hemingway’s free spirit and love for nature strongly influenced his works. Also regarded as one of the heads of The Lost Generation, Hemingway was a true ex patriot. Unfortunately Hemingway’s inner demons took over. Now we are left with beautifully rich works for readers and ages to come.

Ernest Hemingway’s writing is among the most recognizable and influential in twentieth century literature. Hemingway’s technique is uncomplicated, with simple grammar and easy language. His trademark is a clean style that forgoes adjectives and uses short, rhythmic sentences that focus on action rather than reflection. He was also an obsessive reviser. His final work is the result of a careful process of selecting only those elements essential to the story and weeding everything else away. He kept his writing direct and unembellished, embracing a technique he termed the “iceberg principle.” (Hemingway-Maxwell 70).

Hemingway is also considered an expert of dialogue. The conversations between his characters demonstrate not only communication but also its limits. His minimalistic writing is displayed within his short stories, achieving the most from the least. With that, Hemingway did not embrace emotions in his writing. He saw emotions useless in his writing. Instead he formed sculptures to portray the authentic feeling. “He used his life experiences as inspirations for many of his books”( Bruccoli 34).

Hemingway was famously known for his heroic adventurous and often stereotypically “manly” public persona ...

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...tinued his expeditions into Africa and sustained several injuries during his adventures, even surviving multiple plane crashes. In 1954, he won the Literature Nobel Prize. Even at the top of his literary career, Hemingway's body and mind were beginning to turn on him.He was recovering from many old injuries, dealing with deep depression and struggling with numerous conditions such as high blood pressure and liver disease. He wrote A Moveable Feast, a memoir of his years in Paris, and retired in Idaho. There he continued to battle with diminishing mental and physical health. On the morning of July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide in his Ketchum home.(Baker 221). Hemingway’s life was a story of triumphs and tragedies, of joy and despair. He earned great acclaim as an author during his lifetime, but even that could not stop him from losing the will to live.