Ernest Hemingway is an American author whose ideas of courage and honor in a confusing and hostile world, remain as inspiration to this day. The short stories of Ernest Hemingway are among the most important works of American literature. In order to understand more about American literature, I have chosen two of Hemingway’s short stories to compare and contrast the elements on the characters and the stories. The two stories are “A Clean, Well-Lighted …showed first 75 words of 1080 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1080 total…short, simple sentences; his straight-forward, with the rapid speed of events happening, yet the rich details of the story still exist; the absence of a character’s name, yet the characters still well defined; the lack of descriptions, yet the character’s feeling and emotion are still exist; the overall suddenness and unexpectedness ending which capture the readers’ interest on his story. Therefore, I would like to recommend others to read Hemingway’s short stories.