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A Farewell To Arms: Style - Term Papers

A Farewell To Arms: Style

Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic.
These are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a
newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object
sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations of
lefts and rights coming at us without pause. Take the following passage:

We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to
realize they were cooked would win the war. We had another drink. Was I on
somebody's staff? No. He was. It was all balls.

The style gains power because it is so full of sensory detail.

There was an inn in the trees at the Bains de ...

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has the immediacy of a news
bulletin: these are facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored.
And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions like "patriotism," so
does Hemingway distrust them. Instead he seeks the concrete, the tangible: "hot
red wine with spices, cold air that numbs your nose." A simple "good" becomes
higher praise than another writer's string of decorative adjectives.

Though Hemingway is best known for the tough simplicity of style seen in the
first passage cited above, if we take a close look at A Farewell to Arms, we
will often find another Hemingway at work--a writer who is aiming for certain
complex effects, who is experimenting with language, and who is often self-
consciously manipulating words. Some sentences are clause-filled and eighty or
more words long. Take for example the description in Chapter 1 that begins,
"There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain"; it paints an
entire dreary wartime autumn and ...

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Added: 1/3/2008 02:04:02 AM
Category: Book Reports
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