Writing Style

There is definitely no argument that Ernest Hemingway is a great classic writer. However, it is also very obvious just how classic he is. Hemingway writes The Old Man and the Sea in an extremely unique way. Most authors tend to try and style away from too many choppy, simple sentences, but not Hemingway. He embraces this style of writing and takes off with it, making parts of The Old Man and the Sea hard to get through and very choppy.

The sentences in The Old Man and the Sea are very simple. Not all of them run together very well. Even when describing things the sentences are kept choppy and short. Sometimes the simple sentences are even drawn out too far.

But Hemingway is famous for his style- his factual, short sentences and declarative sentences. He uses an abundance of prepositional phrases, as well. Even though his writing can be very dreary, it is his own classic style and it is simply the way that he wrote. A lot of people in this time period wrote in the same way as Hemingway, but he put a slightly different spin on the small, short, and choppy sentences and slightly flat words and made the style his own, distinct and recognizable.

The Old Man and the Sea is not really a novel, it is a novella. And Hemingway made everything about this piece of fiction short. The story. The sentences. The captivation for the reader. Hemingway is definitely a great writer, an iconic one, but some of the writing in The Old Man and the Sea is just too hard to get into because of the way the sentences are formed. But given the writing of today, when authors and writers are encouraged to use compound sentences, simple sentences, and complex-compound sentences within a piece of work, Hemingway did well with the kind of writing style that he used in his works of literature.