What makes your genre & style of what the writer wrote so significant?
Hemingway had a unique style of writing that no other author of his time had. “Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899–1961), American novelist and short-story writer, whose style is characterized by crispness, laconic dialogue, and emotional understatement. His writings and his personal life exerted a profound influence on American writers of his time. Many of his works are regarded as classics of American literature; some have been made into motion pictures.” (“Hemingway, Ernest Miller”). Hemingway’s style could be explained as simple but crisp. He often used simple sentences in his works as well as very few adverbs and adjectives. He did not set out to make his pieces juicy and descriptive, he wanted his work to be raw and right down to the bone.
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| Hemmingway winning a Nobel Prize |
Hemingway’s style and works have created both criticism and controversy as well as many praises. Hemingway’s father is one of the many who criticized Hemingway’s style. His father was upset about his son’s writing style because of how vulgar it was. Despite the vulgarity, criticism, and controversy brought about by Hemingway’s writing he was still honored with multiple different awards. His most famous awards won for his writing are the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hemingway is still extremely well known today. (MessyNessy "10 Things you Probably didn't know about Ernest Hemingway (like he was a KGB Spy)" 2016). There are multiple books analyzing his individualistic style and many writers even attempt to mimic his style. Some of his novels have even been turned into major motion pictures as well as films about the details of Hemingway’s life.
