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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.

ne that was fairly unconventional. Oscar respected Kate as a unique and curious woman and allowed her enormous freedom in her endeavors (39). Yet, Kate ha

being the wife of a Creole cotton broker and take care for their six children (Skaggs 3). Like Kate's father, Oscar also died a sudden death in 1883. The tremendous grief she felt for his loss seemed to stay with her through most of her life and was a great influence on her writing (Seyersted 46).

insatiable reader, she needed to provide for her large family, and she was encouraged by her family doctor to pursue her passion of writing as a relief from her loss

Her writing resembled the local color movement's characteristics in that she focused on characters from her part of the country and portrayed them through the social and physical settings in which they lived

It ended her career as a writer permanently

That voice gave an important view of the female role in society and contributed to the beginning of the later feminist movements.

"unless one’s inner person is integral with one’s outer roles and relationships, a fully satisfying life cannot be achieved