Just a brief comment on Hemingway, particularly his short
stories. What is brilliant about Hemingway is the way he used
dialogue to express character. In some stories, for instance
A Clean Well Lighted Place or Hills Like White Elephants,
there is little else outside of dialogue and just a touch, a
perfect touch, of description. This may make Hemingway appear
to be "external." However, he actually expressed the internal
through the external in a most powerful and yes minimalist
way. Elmore Leonard, that great craftsman of painting
character through dialogue, does much the same thing today
and pays homage to Hemingway. He paints, we interpret. There
is something there we can still learn.
On the macho bit I suggest you re-read White Elephants. Is
there any possible doubt where his sympathy lies, the macho
man or "the girl." Hemingway writes to the human condition
and his vision is dark. Thus in a sense he can be considered
a noir writer. Is there a darker tale than Indian Camp?
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