Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

• Create a list of writing traits for Fitzgerald and Hemingway--today focusing on differences. For example, consider this sentence from The Great Gatsby: "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars"(39). Particularly in Gatsby, Fitzgerald includes many of the following traits:

1. His writing is very poetic, including much imagery and figurative language.
   
2. Gatsby is told by a 1st person limited narrator (Nick Carraway).
3. Much of the action and motivations of characters are revealed through Nick's analysis of his own and others' thoughts--he spends a good deal of time examining the "whys" of behavior.
4. His writing is very descriptive, including many details to set the tone and mood of each setting.

• Read Hemingway's short story "Indian Camp" (separate packet--or found in the collections In Our Time or The Nick Adams Stories.)
• What features of Hemingway's writing separate him from Fitzgerald?
  
• Consider the Iceberg Theory: only 10% of an iceberg is visible above water, the other 90% exists below the surface. Similarly, Hemingway only gives about 10% of the important information explicitly in his narration. Make a list of the questions that are raised but not answered by Hemingway in the story.
• Keep the chart comparing Fitzgerald's writing with Hemingway's in your notebook, along with the list of questions generated by "Indian Camp." This story will be covered in a quiz next week.