Ernest Hemingway's A Canary For One And Hills Like White Elephants

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Ernest Hemingway's short stories A Canary for One and Hills like White Elephants are both written omitting all unnecessary details, forcing the reader to look more deeply into the story. This is known as Hemingway’s Iceberg theory. Rather than using words and explaining the story Hemingway's writing style is similar to an iceberg, for every part shown there are seven-eighths still underwater. A Canary for One is a story about a loss of love as an American couple plans to take up separate residences. Details as to why the couple were setting up separate homes were excluded from the story since they were not needed to get across the message of the story. In fact it was not until the end of the story it is mentioned that the couple is divorced,
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