About Josh Silverstein Expertise I will answer questions relating to Ernest Hemingway's life or literature. I can also help with quotation source requests. No homework questions please.
Experience Mr. Silverstein holds a B.A. in English Literature and has been studying the life and works of Ernest Hemingway for the past ten years. His major work on Hemingway is titled, "The Importance of Being Ernest: Hemingway's Truth in Fiction and his Fiction in Truth." He is also author of "Hemingway: Alive and Well Online," an article exploring Hemingway's presence and position in the online community. He is the founder of "Timeless Hemingway," an award winning web site devoted to Ernest Hemingway.
Question Hello, I'm a German student doing a research paper on "the history of the American short story from Hawthorne to Hemingway".
My first question is what short story you would suggest to be exemplary of Hemingway's work.
Secoundly I would like to know your opinion whether his story "A Day's Wait" can be regarded as exemplary of the expressionistic slice-of-life story after 1920.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, I'm looking forward to your response!
K
Answer Hello,
Regarding your first question, I would choose "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" as being exemplary of Hemingway's work.
Hemingway's words are essentially just words like any other words, but the way he stirs them together is his own unique formula, a stylistic recipe that no other writer has been able to recreate. There are sentences that only Hemingway could get away with because we know that Hemingway wrote them. He creates such sentences in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." The story is also rich with ambiguity, a Hemingway trademark.
Regarding your second question, yes, "A Day's Wait" does resemble a slice-of-life story.
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