A Farewell to Arms: Style Critics usually describe

Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic. These

are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his

training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the

declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has

been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations of lefts

and rights coming at us without pause. Take the following

passage: We were all cooked. The thing was not to

recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked

would win the war. We had another drink. Was I on

somebody's staff? No. He was. It was all balls. The style

gains power because it is so full of sensory detail. There was

an inn in the trees at the Bains de l'Allaiz where the

woodcutters stopped to drink, and we sat inside warmed by

the stove and drank hot red wine with spices and lemon in it.

They called it gluhwein and it was a good thing to warm you

and to celebrate with. The inn......

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Title: A Farewell To Arms
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