Ernest Hemingway vs. William Faulkner

Unlike any other author the style of writing Ernest Hemingway uses in his stories are

short and long sentences, but when a sentence is long it is joined with conjunctions such as

and’s, but’s, and because. For example, “In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the

dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit because he was deaf and now at night it was

quiet and he felt the difference.” (Hemingway, pg 165) Hemingway’s stories are like reading a

speech. In addition, Hemingway does not use any emotions into his writing; his stories are

simply and have little meaning to it. His writing is similar to life because in life, you often find

yourself given little information and must read between the lines to understand something to

figure out what to do next.

William Faulkner writing is very different from Hemingway’s way of writing; he uses

longer complex sentences in his stories. For example, He could not see the table where the

justice sat and before which his father and his father’s enemy (our enemy he thought in that

despair: ourn! mine and hisn both! He’s my father) stood, but he could not hear them, the two of

them that is, because his father had said no word yet.” (Faulkner, pg 169) Additionally,

Faulkner’s sentences interrupts with parenthesis. Unlike Hemingway, Faulkner uses emotions in

his writing. A writer might learn from Faulkner’s writing because it has sentence structure and

meaning within vocabulary.

The style of writing I prefer most is the way Hemingway writes because I find it easier to

read and understand his story. Even though Hemingway’s style of writing has no emotion, I am

able to read between the lines and figure out the story. With Faulkner’s style of writing is much

more difficult because I would get confused