Big Two-Hearted River
by Ernest Hemingway
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“Big Two-Hearted River” is a short story in the Modernist literary genre. Modernism as a literary movement started in the early 20th century as a way for writers to process social and economic inequality as well as the effects of the catastrophic global wars. Writers like Hemingway felt that the devastation and alienation of modern society could not be captured via traditional literary techniques and started experimenting with narration, pacing, characterization, and more.