Twentieth century American literature illustrates the emergence of
             stories and characters that reflect real lifeâ€"that is, a respite from
             romantic or idealistic notions of people's lives, as depicted in literary
             works. In Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," readers are presented
             with a realistic depiction of the American life and individual. The novel,
             published in 1919, is a collection of short stories that illustrate the
             lives of people in Winesburg, Ohio; each vignette gives readers insights
             about an individual/character's personality and a different perspective of
             Anderson's depiction of life in the novel has become popular and
             influential that American writers of the same period had followed his
             perspective in narrating life as a work of art. Among these writers is
             Ernest Hemingway, well-known novelist, whose literary style of writing was
             heavily influenced by Anderson's work, "Winesburg, Ohio." Hemingway's
             genius led him to create exceptional and well-acclaimed literary works, and
             in the course of his career as writer, he conceived of the "Iceberg
             This theory, formulated in the 1930s, is stated as follows by
             Hemingway: "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing
             about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is
             writing truly enough, will have a feeling those things as strongly as
             though the writer had states them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg
             is due to only one eighth of it being above water."
             Simply put, the iceberg theory provides an explanation for the reader-
             writer connection, where details not illustrated or clearly illustrated in
             the story are "created" and "understood" in the minds of the readers. This
             theory takes into consideration the fact that readers and writers establish
             a connection' in the act of reading the text, wherein knowledge of the
             writer's style and perspecti...