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  1. Jun 4, 2018 · It is appropriate that “nothing happens” in this prologue to Hemingway’s novels because the dilemma of his main characters is that “nothing” is going to happen unless a modern Perceval removes the plagues of the people and restores fertility to the land.

  2. May 4, 2021 · Hemingway’s best prose exemplifies what I preached. In “A Moveable Feast” he wrote, “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” This passage has been mocked as pretentious by people who miss the point.

  3. Nov 27, 2019 · Following this dictum, Hemingway constructed stories that sometimes make readers feel as if they are unseen auditors at some closet drama, or silent observers at intimate moments in the lives of characters struggling with important, although often private, issues.

  4. Apr 17, 2023 · Hemingway is a writer of paradox; a macho, masculine writer who questioned masculinity, a hunter who could run with the hunted, a naturalist who mourned the destruction of the very habitats he plundered for big game.

  5. Hemingway relies on several literary devices to make his language figurative. For example, his imagery is very clear and striking in his short story “The Snows of Kilimajaro” in which he uses flashback technique. In “The Killers” he uses surprise, suspense as well as a conversational style.

  6. Hemingway's choice. The celebrated "Hemingway hero," who is saved from damnation by what he called "grace under pressure," is a two-sided ex-pression of Hemingway's values. Philip Young, in Ernest Hemingway, has provided the best analysis of these contrasting sides, which he defined as the "Hemingway hero" and the "code hero."

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  8. Jan 4, 2016 · Hemingway shows off a 324-pound blue marlin as Samuelson (far left) admires it. In a sentiment that calls to mind Neil Gaiman’s magnificent commencement address on the only adequate response to criticism, Hemingway cautions Samuelson about the petty jealousies that arise with success: