E. Hemingway’s Style

E. Hemingway is a renowned American author of the Twentieth century who centers his novels around personal experiences and affections. His style has been said to lack substance because he avoids direct statements and descriptions of emotion. Ernest Hemingway used to say: "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things." He used a style of “distrustful adjectives” in accordance with the esthetics and ethics of raising the emotional temperature towards the level of universal truth by shutting the door on sentiment, on the subjective.

E. Hemingway used several different narrative techniques in his later novels. He employed the use of internal monologues (where the reader is in the “mind” of a particular character), objective descriptions, rapid shifts of point of view, and in general a looser structure than in his earlier works.

E. Hemingway is known to focus his novels around code heroes who struggle with the mixture of their tragic faults and the surrounding environment. E. Hemingway defined the code hero as "a man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful."  The code hero is typically an individualist and free-willed. He never shows emotions; showing emotions and having a commitment to women shows weakness. Qualities such as bravery, adventuresome and travel also define the code hero.  In the end the code hero loses because we are all mortal, but the true measure is how a person faces death. 

E. Hemingway believed that a writer’s style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. He aimed at the real thing, the sequence of motion and the fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or in ten years.

Sira Maryna

Are You a Good Essay Writer?

In the first-year English Literature, the quality of the first assignment (the practice essay) is often disappointing. The most common problems are lack of unity, inadequate argumentation, and informal presentation.

• How do I relate to the world of the text?

One of the problems that students frequently have when they are writing on literature is that they don't distinguish between the values and conditions of the world in which they themselves live - in the present day, in a particular part of the world - and the conditions and values of the world of the text. In understanding the "world of the text", we also need to distinguish between the world in which the text is produced (for example, the world as it was when the novel ”Jane Eyre” was written) and, most importantly, the conditions of the world as it is set up and depicted within the novel

• How can I improve my writing?

It's important when you are writing your essay to make sure that it is a unified piece of work. In other words, what you are arguing for in your opening paragraph need to be supported and developed in the succeeding paragraphs. The conclusion of the essay should relate to the opening paragraph, so if you find that the key terms in the opening paragraphs are not visible in the concluding paragraph that might be a sign that you've wandered from the point. So be definite in your exposition at the beginning of the essay and make sure that you carry over the sense of your argument from paragraph to paragraph. Don't get led away into generalities.