Author's Style

          Hemingway would write about the economy, and he had an important influence on the development of 20th century writing. Hemingway also used understatement in his writing, this helped with the humor of the story. The protagonist in Hemingway's novels were typically stoical men who can still have "grace under pressure."

          Hemingway used the Iceberg Theory, which is "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. The writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing."  For example in "Hills Like White Elephants" he never mentions the word abortion, but that is what the characters of the story are talking about.