American writers, regarded tremendously around the world and produce many of the great novels written. In order to write a good novel, there must be a great author who knows how to manipulate words and phrases to set the mood and let the reader understand how characters feel on a deeper and more personal level; in addition, a great author must also be able to deliver theme across to the reader so the reader can understand what the meaning of the story is, and two of those great authors are William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. In Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean Well Lighted Place” and William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”, Ernest Hemingway uses a succinct, clean, staccato, and eloquent style of writing in order to show how although one might gain
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William Faulkner tends to use a more detailed view. As he stated during an interview with John Coleman’s Writing Class, “It’s the desire to exhaust completely the human character which one is trying to create, to probe and to probe, to never be quite satisfied” (Interview). Thus revealing his thoughts on how a writer should write a story or novel, to write and write, or as he states “to probe and probe”. Those thoughts are the thoughts that lead to his writing being filled to the brim with information, as he wants to state everything he possibly can in the story. While largely in contrast to that would be simplicity, or Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway doesn’t dive into monstrous depths of detail in his stories and attempt probe the story until everything is revealed within the text. Instead, his style is simple, clean, and arguably eloquent. For example in “A Clean Well Lighted Place”, he writes, “The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer for the counter inside the cafe and marched out to the old man’s table” (Hemingway 174-178). This would seem as just an ordinary sentence anywhere else, but its simplicity is where the strength is in the sentence. Ernest Hemingway wrote a simple sentence yet filled it with detail that would add depth to his story. He used the key word “marched”, …show more content…
He was asked during an interview with Jean Stein, “Some people say they can’t understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them?” in which he responded, “Read it four times” (Interview). William Faulkner had seemed to not care that they weren’t able to understand it and never thought about that it could have been a fault of his own. He just wrote and hadn’t thought about revising it as he stated that someone should just read it again and basically hope they understand what he had wrote. In contrast, there is Ernest Hemingway, trying and trying to always strive for perfection. It’s even stated that, “He was an obsessive reviser. His work is the result of a careful process of selecting only those elements essential to the story and pruning everything else away” (Hemingway’s Writing Style”). Hemingway did not just write and write as Faulkner did, but revise and revise and always wanted to find the perfect sentence and kept revising in hopes of finding it. He cared about his writing and thus made it stronger and more effective than Faulkner’s by doing so; in addition, he even nicknamed his own writing style. “He kept his prose direct and unadorned, employing a technique he termed “the iceberg principle” (“Hemingway’s Writing Style”). The iceberg
William Faulkner tends to use a more detailed view. As he stated during an interview with John Coleman’s Writing Class, “It’s the desire to exhaust completely the human character which one is trying to create, to probe and to probe, to never be quite satisfied” (Interview). Thus revealing his thoughts on how a writer should write a story or novel, to write and write, or as he states “to probe and probe”. Those thoughts are the thoughts that lead to his writing being filled to the brim with information, as he wants to state everything he possibly can in the story. While largely in contrast to that would be simplicity, or Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway doesn’t dive into monstrous depths of detail in his stories and attempt probe the story until everything is revealed within the text. Instead, his style is simple, clean, and arguably eloquent. For example in “A Clean Well Lighted Place”, he writes, “The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer for the counter inside the cafe and marched out to the old man’s table” (Hemingway 174-178). This would seem as just an ordinary sentence anywhere else, but its simplicity is where the strength is in the sentence. Ernest Hemingway wrote a simple sentence yet filled it with detail that would add depth to his story. He used the key word “marched”, …show more content…
He was asked during an interview with Jean Stein, “Some people say they can’t understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them?” in which he responded, “Read it four times” (Interview). William Faulkner had seemed to not care that they weren’t able to understand it and never thought about that it could have been a fault of his own. He just wrote and hadn’t thought about revising it as he stated that someone should just read it again and basically hope they understand what he had wrote. In contrast, there is Ernest Hemingway, trying and trying to always strive for perfection. It’s even stated that, “He was an obsessive reviser. His work is the result of a careful process of selecting only those elements essential to the story and pruning everything else away” (Hemingway’s Writing Style”). Hemingway did not just write and write as Faulkner did, but revise and revise and always wanted to find the perfect sentence and kept revising in hopes of finding it. He cared about his writing and thus made it stronger and more effective than Faulkner’s by doing so; in addition, he even nicknamed his own writing style. “He kept his prose direct and unadorned, employing a technique he termed “the iceberg principle” (“Hemingway’s Writing Style”). The iceberg