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In the following essay, Michael Zam examines Hemingway’s sparse writing style, and compares that style to the early motion-picture technique of montage.

One of the most often-discussed aspects of Ernest Hemingway’s writing is his distinctive style. Whereas many writers of his day were still heavily influenced by the verbose, extremely descriptive style of English and American authors of the nineteenth century such as Charles Dickens Jane Austen and Herman Melville Hemingway was not. His literature is free of the extensive use of adjectives common in the...

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