n Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 30 Edmund Wilson, Cleanth Brooks, Jr. and Robert Penn Warren review the works of Ernest Hemingway. The authors take a look into the writing styles, the characters and the story lines Ernest Hemingway. Edmund Wilson criticizes Hemingway’s In Our Time, a story following the life of Hemingway starting with growing up in America. The story has fragments pieced together along with a series of brutal sketches of violence. Wilson finds this unique in Hemingway’s story how he pieces the parts together to make one large overall picture. The story then transitions to a hard time in Hemingway’s life involving war and being shot in the back. Wilson talks about how Hemingway’s writing style is unique and strange
