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a natural admiration of every individual who fights the good fight in a world of reality overshadowed by violence and death."

the crisp reporting of action observed in sharp focus, dialogue that is colloquial in register and laconic in tone

supported by deeper narrative structures

The emotional responses between speakers are implied, not described, as speech follows speech.

It is about the relationship of the man and the woman as revealed through the action and dialogue.

rficially, this is the story of an aborted fishing trip; quintessentially it is the story of a collapsing relationship whose outcome is unresolved

Hemingway wrote of his narrative strategy that "if a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as if the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

the reader more easily perceives the submerged structures that support the visible parts of his later fiction,

Hemingway's narrative technique was taking. The story is presented obliquely, its effect created as much by what is omitted as by what is overtly stated.