How Does Hemingway Use Syntax In Farewell To Arms

Faulkner and Hemingway were two talented and well-known authors of their time. Hemingway and Faulkner varied in their writing techniques including how they portrayed the tone of their story and how their story is told. Their distinct styles are brought together through their vivid descriptions of life that have evolved the industry of american literature. Hemingway’s choice of syntax in Farewell to Arms, influences the style and tone of the novel.“We think. We read. We are not peasants. We are mechanics” (Hemingway 51). He uses short simplistic sentences, creating clear and concise ideas that show the readers the facts and get right to the point of what Henry is trying to say. "I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine. Through the other noise I heard a cough, then came the chuh-chuh-chuh-chuh- then there was a flash, as when a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wind." (Hemingway 54). His use of long complex sentences creates an elaborate setting and tone for the reader to better delve into the environment of what was going on around the characters. Rather than cram each sentence with mass amounts of description to bore the reader, Hemingway sets up his setting and facts in the story through short sentences later explaining more in depth.
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He does this by having an object or scene act like a trigger for something that happened in the past. In A Rose For Emily, when the people are trying to collect Miss Emily’s taxes, it triggers a memory from 30 years prior when her father was forced to do something about the neighbors complaining about a bad smell in their backyard. "So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell." He uses this technique quite simply by using the same verb vanquished for both