A Clean, Well-Lighted Place | Literary Qualities
Hemingway sorts through his tales with a razor blade: each sentence cuts into the story with its own purpose. Perhaps the most striking element of Hemingway's work is his sentence structure. However, other notable qualities abound in regard to his methods of telling a story.
In Hemingway's short stories, each sentence takes on a more pungent meaning, and all the more so in a story as compact as "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." The simple sentence structure belies a rich world of description, for it is through the very use of simplistic sentence structuring that Hemingway frees...
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