Hemmingway’s Unique Writing Style

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Being distinguished from many greatest American writers, Hemingway is noted for his writing style. Among all his works, The Old Man and the Sea is a typical one to his unique writing style and technique. The language is simple and natural on the surface, but actually deliberate and artificial. In the following part I will analyses his unique writing styles from three aspects. First, the language style. Second, choosing of words. Third, his Iceberg theory. Among all his works, The Old Man and the Sea is the most typical one to show his unique language style. Its language is simple and natural, and has the effect of directness, clarity and freshness. This is because Hemingway always manages to choose words concrete, specific and more commonly found. For example, “In the late summer of that year we live in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blued in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust ristting and the leaves stirred by the breeze. Falling and the soldiers marching and afterwards the road bare and white except for the leaves. ” From this part we can see the simplicity style his writing. He frequently uses short sentences and compound sentences. Also the words he uses are commonly found. His description is depend on the vision hearing and tactile sense. He is used to choose specific words, Hemingway’s
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