Hemingway wrote with his heart. His greatness came from speaking from the heart and explaining what we didnt know how to say. His technique was simply writing what he knew; every man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Specifically, Hemingway used a variety of techniques, including:
- He used his own life experiences in one way or another in his books.
- He was honest and accurate about his own wounds and hurts.
- He used the "Iceburg Principle," just as the largest part of an iceberg is unseen under water, his stories had much that was left out and assumed.
- He used understatement and irony.
- He believed in showing things rather than talking about them.
- He shaped his plots in three stages: from innocence, to alienation, then aspiration; or from departure, to initiation, to return; or from rejection, to avoidance, to the quest for something new.
