Hemmingway_-_Review

Hemmingway - Review Hemmingway’s characteristics: no dialog tags, realistic, lifelike speech, uses some figurative language, easy to understand, simple yet deeper meanings, lots of sarcasm- hard-boiled, masculine style, lots of ands, very blunt, downplays death, emphasis on violence and war, contrasts, deals with common man, descriptive imagery, uses nature, reversed order, repetition and parallelism, staccato Hemmingway Short Stories Clean Well-Lighted Place: Characters: Old man, two waiters Themes: money is the only thing of importance, Old waiter is the Hemmingway hero, he doesn’t want to go to sleep because sleep=death. Short choppy sentences, no dialog tags. Lord’s prayer with Nada. Emphasis on cleanliness and light. Cat in the Rain: very few nametags, understatements, short, choppy sentences. Girl wants a different life; unsatisfied, wants children, wants femininity. Lots of tension. George is husband; not a bad guy. Hotelkeeper, maid. Indian Camp: short choppy sentences, no tags, old person vs. young person, emphasis on action, Father vs. Nick, distinction. “But her screams are not important, I don’t hear them because they’re not important”; “is dying hard'” “…he felt quite sure that he would never die” The Short Happy Life: Macomber, his wife, Robert Wilson. Married 11 years; Wife, Margaret. endorsed a beauty product which she about, short, flashback, old, never, lots, wife, war, tags, sentences, man, hemmingway, emphasis, choppy, because, wrote, waiters, vs, very, two, they’re, tension, sure, sarcasm, person, nick, named, much, life, important, hero, george, don’t, die, dialog