Hemingway and Joyce

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This paper compares "The Dead" by James Joyce and "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. According to this paper, even though both works seem to be totally different, after a thorough analysis one can recognise a similar use of modernism by both writers.

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"In comparing "The Dead" by James Joyce and "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, it is initially difficult to determine whether these two modernist writers shared stylistic commonalities. Hemingway's "Hills" is stripped down to the essence while Joyce's "The Dead" is long and seemingly Victorian in his use of descriptions. Joyce's piece also seems on initial reading to follow a more traditional means of story-telling in contrast to Hemingway's of-the-moment slice of life conversation. However, on further analysis it becomes apparent that these two writers used modernism in a much similar way but at a different time in writing their two distinctly singular works."

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