Compare and Contrast Faulkner and Hemmingway
Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner were two of the most prolific writers of the 20th century. They did not exactly see eye-to-eye. Faulkner criticized Hemingway for his simplistic writing style, and he once told a literature class that Hemingway's writing "lacked courage." Hemmingway thought of Faulkner as a "no good son of a bitch," but he also thought his works on the south and Negroes were good. Faulkner's short story "That Evening Sun" and Hemmingway's short story "The Killers" illustrates the similarities and the differences between the two writers. Both stories lack a definite ending. The character of Ole Andreson in "The Killers" and Nancy in "That Evening Sun" are both waiting to die at the end of each story. However, the situations are very different. Ole has been hunted by hit men for something that he done in Chicago. They eventually leave and Ole is at least safe for the moment, although it seems as if he has accepted the fact that his time is coming. "Yet without their even laying eyes on him, let alone confronting and shooting him, Al and Max (because they represent the notion of 'the killers' who have already 'killed' his will to live) have already won the contest" (Monteiro 41). Faulkner's character
The Compson children in "That Evening Sun" are the narrators and the focus of The Sound and the Fury, the story of the crumbling of that family, and Quentin Compson is the narrator for Absalom, Absalom. Everyone has met lonely women like Mrs. Nancy, on the other hand, has no proof that Jesus will return to harm her. Although Quentin is no longer a child, he tells the story from the point of view of a nine year old, and in the style of a child. It is easy to imagine him telling her he had just eaten dinner at Henry's when he did not feel like eating at all. "I'd walk right down this lane by myself. "Slit whose belly, Nancy?" Caddy said. How did the killers know that Ole would be in Henry's lunchroom at six o'clock? Perhaps Mrs. Bell follows suit of the idea in the rest of the story in which the real is not real. This allows for some flexibility in his narration, and allows his tone to be sympathetic toward Nancy, whereas it may not have been at his age during the time of the story. She has generated this fear of dying within herself, but it becomes real to her.
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