Hemingway
believed that the omission of certain
facts about characters or plot helped strengthen his
stories. He hoped that
readers would bring their own interpretations and abilities to infer
important details. For example, in the novel , Hemingway never
overtly
tells his reader that Jake Barnes is impotent because of a wound
suffered during World War I,
yet the fact is implied and acts as afor the
impotence of his generation.
On
the surface, the short
story " " appears to be about a casual conversation between two
lovers as
they travel through Spain. Hemingway, however, immediately signals that there is
a
problem in the first paragraph with his...
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