Subject Tag: dialog

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Filed under: Fiction, Reviews

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan was one of the first modern novels when it was published in 1679 and 1685 because it uses dialogue as a main tool to drive the story. As an allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress plainly tells the story of each Christian’s lifelong quest from a sinful life to eternal life using the [...]

Stories by Ernest Hemingway

Filed under: Poetry, Pondering Writing Styles, Reviews, Short Stories, Writing about Reading

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Hemingway’s stories are poetry: that is my first and lasting impression of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories. In his short stories, Hemingway treats words as sparsely as do poets.
I don’t usually understand or enjoy poetry because it feels so much must be inferred or interpreted. (After I finish reading the HTR&W short stories, [...]

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