“Bull” is more popular in 40% of the parts of the fiction corpus. However, in the nonfiction “Bull” was more popular in nonfiction by a significant amount. There is also a significant difference between how much “bull” is mentioned in living and posthumous works – 1495 and 573 mentions, respectively. Even taking into account the …
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How To Not Read Hemingway Fiction
Something that we noticed while reading Hemingway was his absence of interesting description. The words that were used the most were very basic description words. Typically when I think of people writing, they use very obscure description words and I just assume they plugged all […]
The Truth According to Hemingway
I started by examining Ernest Hemingway’s living vs. posthumous fiction. At a surface level, I saw that Hemingway would have cringed to see a 64% increase in the vocabulary density from the living to the posthumous. Assuming that the editorial work added few or no words not written by the author, this suggests that Hemingway …
Botnik story
“I don’t know how he was riding all day through fields of the poppies. He was very embarrassed and he could remember how he had started the motor car with his flat face. You mustn’t ever tell him. They do it. Nick felt so very impressive. It’s the car. We’ll see her husband in the …
Fate has Captured Ole Anderson
It is interesting to read of a character that is already awaiting their doom. Ole Anderson in the short story “The Killers” used to be a fighter, and I think that is part of the poetic nature of this story. He USED to fight, USED to be in the ring; Now he is most definitely […]
Love In All the Wrong Places
“A Very Short Story” is aptly named. Most of Hemingway’s short stories are about four to six pages long from
This May Be My Longest Rant Yet
While I was reading God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, I found my mi nd wondering to the boy. I think he is the most interesting character in th e short story and I would like to open a discussion about him. While I understand this story is fictional and set in a different time period, … Continue reading This May Be Mhttp://dh17.chalcedonyco.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/1200px-Brigham_Young_University_medallion.svg_.pngy Lonhttp://dh17.chalcedonyco.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/1200px-Brigham_Young_University_medallion.svg_.pnggest Rant Yet
“I feel fine”
The last three words of the latter reading, “Hills like White Elephants,” to me show some amount of dissonance between this man and woman. There is this unknown operation that is going to or scheduled to occur on the woman, and the man seems to have a much higher vested interest in it. While undeclared, […]
Hills Like White Elephants Analysis
I was reading “Hills Like White Elephants” again (I say again because I read it in high school and maybe one other time since) and this time I was struck with the meaning moreso than before. So I might try to give a little explanation of what I think “Hills…
