Ernest Hemingway is often referred to as the most influential writer of prose. He was awarded the Nobel peace prize for literature in 1954. In the message he prepared on receipt of the prize he showed his attitude toward writing when he declared ".... for a true writer each book should be a new beginning, were he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done, or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have made such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past were no one can help him (Monarch)." Although his novels may have been referred to as elementary, they have become some of the greatest novels ever written. In the Novels A Farwell To Arms and For Whom The Bell Tolls, Hemingway supports the themes of the brutality and the unity that is present when people's beliefs drive them to war, through descriptive settings and intense imagery that describe how war effects the individual.
             Hemingway engulfs the reader in a torrent of imagery when he depicts what a person of that era may have seen and felt in a time of war. These comprehensive descriptions give the reader great insight while combing through the pages. In A Farwell To Arms and For Whom The Bell Tolls all the characters lives revolve around war and its viciousness.
             Hemingway's vibrant imagery in For Whom the Bell Tolls is very evident from the first paragraph as he describes Robert Jordan, the main character, laying on pine needles and noticing how the wind blew the tops of the trees above. This instance of imagery is only the beginning of a sensory journey that any reader will take as they read his novels. This constant pursuit of perfection by Hemingway on each page guides the read...