Stylistic analysis of “The Old Man and the Sea”
Plot construction
The plot of the novel is very strong, well-knit and well-arranged although the novel is not separated into episodes. There is a convincing opening, middle and an end. Everything is brilliantly portrayed providing the whole lot required for the attentiveness of the reader. Hemingway’s iceberg method displays in the uncommon use of dialogue tags and a plot that does not expose ample about the characters or the setting. The actual plot is frequently veiled, parting it to the reader to understand and “sense” what the story is actually about.
Language of the Old Man and the Sea
Malcolm Cowley while interpreting The Old Man and the Sea wrote that Hemingway adopted the ancient and direct words, the modest structures, but contributes them an original worth as if English were an extraordinary language that he had studied or designed for himself and was trying to write in its unique clarity. In 1958 while giving an interview to The Paris Review Hemingway described his style of writing in following words:
I constantly attempt to inscribe on the principal of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it subsurface …show more content…
He precisely pointed the ones via conjunction and Tyler (2001) states that Hemingway’s writing style is acknowledged for his “short declarative sentences, a liking for simple, mostly one-syllable words, and an importance on the tangible relatively to intangible. The sentences are short but written clearly, simple and not comprising so much material is one of Hemingway’s assurances. According to Lanham (2003), parataxis is a fictional method that acknowledges short and simple sentences. Hemingway use unique and powerful style and used minimalism technique in his writing. His sentences are short, declarative and whenever needed he join those with
Plot construction
The plot of the novel is very strong, well-knit and well-arranged although the novel is not separated into episodes. There is a convincing opening, middle and an end. Everything is brilliantly portrayed providing the whole lot required for the attentiveness of the reader. Hemingway’s iceberg method displays in the uncommon use of dialogue tags and a plot that does not expose ample about the characters or the setting. The actual plot is frequently veiled, parting it to the reader to understand and “sense” what the story is actually about.
Language of the Old Man and the Sea
Malcolm Cowley while interpreting The Old Man and the Sea wrote that Hemingway adopted the ancient and direct words, the modest structures, but contributes them an original worth as if English were an extraordinary language that he had studied or designed for himself and was trying to write in its unique clarity. In 1958 while giving an interview to The Paris Review Hemingway described his style of writing in following words:
I constantly attempt to inscribe on the principal of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it subsurface …show more content…
He precisely pointed the ones via conjunction and Tyler (2001) states that Hemingway’s writing style is acknowledged for his “short declarative sentences, a liking for simple, mostly one-syllable words, and an importance on the tangible relatively to intangible. The sentences are short but written clearly, simple and not comprising so much material is one of Hemingway’s assurances. According to Lanham (2003), parataxis is a fictional method that acknowledges short and simple sentences. Hemingway use unique and powerful style and used minimalism technique in his writing. His sentences are short, declarative and whenever needed he join those with