Ernest Hemingway's Writing Style Analysis

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.

William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! is constructed

with the attempt to connect the relationship between man's present actions and those of the past. The complex storyline creates an oppressively close connection nor only to Faulkner’s thoughts, but to the reader. Absalom, Absalom! adopts the Aristotelian belief that artistic imagination characterizes social life more profoundly than the tiresome study of historical fact(Goldstein). An analysis of the novel suggests that Faulkner’s obscurantism, the style of deliberate vagueness, is a major part of how he becomes artistically intelligible (Zoellner). As part of his obscurantism, Faulkner focuses on depicting consciousness as historically and socially regulated system of events and processes (Casero) .We can look at the life of character Thomas Sutpen, in whom Faulkner narrates the rise and fall of this tragic hero. With Sutpen, we perceive a consistent movement of consciousness, in which content flows into Sutpen’s consciousness through his experiences and “moves outward into the conscious system of history as it manifests itself in the form of his design” (Casero). The consequences of Sutpen’s moral failure suggests that moral evil is a living, inherited continuum created by his consciousness (Zoellner). This fosters the melodramatic style of Faulkner, which combines different elements of death, fear, and individuality. Every novel is developed from the author's conception, and although Faulkner is famous for his use of lengthy complex sentences, he still creates a sense of immediacy within his Gothic themes (such as Sutpen).
Ernest Hemingway is known for the complexity of his fiction and the relic of “the lost generation” (Crockford), while depicting his ideas in The Sun Also Rises.

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

Hemingwayesque.
Hemingway and Faulkner both have unique techniques that convey their messages to their readers. The terms "Hemingwayesque" and "Faulknerian" serve as a method for talking about prose, “evoking not merely each respective author's recurring themes and preoccupations but also his distinctive and instantly recognizable style” (Bolton). The combination of both Faulkner’s and Hemingway’s style comes together to reflect one message- the message of the lost generation. Faulkner and Hemingway were in Paris at the same time in the 1920s, with Hemingway suffering from depression, and Faulkner suffering social ineptitude (Jeffrey). The tension and infirmity of contemporary American life became a major theme for both Faulkner and Hemingway.
Hemingway and Faulkner use the main characters of each of their novels as an example of the lost generation. With the concepts of absurdity of life, and a troubles of morality, both Hemingway and Faulkner combine their styles to depict the issues of the 1920s.