Andronikos asked this question about A Farewell to Arms:
Anybody else out there who finds Hemingway's style almost completely unreadable?
Where'sTheAnyKey? I think many of you may be my second-to-last hope in understanding Hemingway. All the sources I've found, including some of the comments here, say he …moreI think many of you may be my second-to-last hope in understanding Hemingway. All the sources I've found, including some of the comments here, say he writes short sentences.
This is what I need help understanding. His sentences appear long, many looking like paragraphs, made of ideas connected by many "ands". Are these sentences still considered short? (less)
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