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by Ernest Hemingway

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Style
Explanation and Analysis:

Hemingway's style is heavily informed by the imagism-inspired “Iceberg” theory of 20th-century poetry, a theory he named himself. Imagism was a poetic movement favoring sharp and precise language that clearly described the subject of a poem. Hemingway's Iceberg theory draws on imagism through the notion of an iceberg: much like an iceberg floating in the ocean, much of the story's meaning is hidden beneath the surface-level descriptions.