We're told how amazing he is by his wife, we're told how handsome he is by an ugly woman at a bar, etc. Ultimately just none of the characters felt great in this either, Harry comes off as flat. Especially how it transcends just this book and its in multiple works of his (books / short stories). Hemingway talks rather than thats how Character X talks. So things like racial language (the n-word and the Asian c-word) in the book more comes off as thats how E.
I also mostly feel like the characters are him so their actions and dialogue is his actions and dialogue, like surrogate characters, rather than their own entities. Sometimes I find him deep and insightful and love his prose, and then others it just comes off as poor and amateur hour. Its funny, I have a hate/love relationship with Hemingway. The various chapters that are POV and then are omniscient, the going back and forth, the things like Harry losing his arm basically happening off-screen, the bad way that he tried to show the intersecting lives of the rich and the poor. Its not that its Hemingway's style that is bad its just the execution of it in this book.
It screams amateurish and first-time writing. I technically finished this yesterday (9.23) (because I only had about 4 pages to go when I got to to work) ironically at work where when I didn't get the promotion I was told I read too much on my breaks and I should be spending that time socializing with my co-workers.īut anyway.
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