Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott
Fitzgerald were best friends. That, dear reader, was a lie. Much like
Fitzgerald’s writing.
When Fitzgerald wrote his
stories, he wrote them for money, and Hemingway hated him for that. He liked to party all the time, but his
writing was usually about a false life he wished he had. When he was younger,
he thought that he had found the love of his life, but she wouldn’t date him
because he didn’t have money. He tends to write happy-ish stories, unlike
Hemingway.
Hemingway’s writing was, for
lack of a better word, dismal. His writing is dreary and mysterious, even
though the vocabulary in his pieces are rudimentary at best. They are basic,
but at the same time they have extremely complex symbolism. In his writing, he
uses certain words or phrases that always lead to death or despair. These key
phrases are usually something like ‘against the wall’, ‘in the dark’, ‘in the
shadows’ or ‘in the rain’. In his stories, You really have to read between the
lines to really get what the story means. You may also have to read it more
than once.
Hemingway and Fitzgerald were
very different people, and so they had very different writing styles.
Hemingway’s writing is dark and mysterious. Fitzgerald’s writing was usually
more up-beat, or about rich and popular teenagers.
