The Form of the Narrative and Writing Style in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"

Hemingway is an American novelist who is well-known for his prose and objective style. He differs from his time and contemporaries’ novelists due to his uniqueness of writing techniques. The readers of his literary works find clarity and simplicity of approach as well as directness in addressing others. The dialogues are the most prominent feature of his novels. The dialogue also gives us an impression on the kind of characters that are exchanging the speech. He has a great experience of writing since he is a journalist, and battle reporter. The current paper is a matter of analyzing the narrative and writing style technique “the iceberg theory” “A style of writing that are utilized by Ernest Hemingway who gives the reader an opportunity to show the intelligence through reading and analyzing events”. The Old Man and the Sea is a fiction that was appeared in 1952, it achieved a great reputation in the world of fictional writing. The writer was awarded Nobel prize not only for his writing the novel, but for his using a simple, clear language which is full of allusions, similes, and metaphor. The writer is also succeeding in using soliloquies, personification, and interior monologues.