Hemingway and Emotion

from Keith M. Ophdal

• 'The story exists to give the reader an emotional reaction'
• Hemingway "The writer may omit things that he knows and the reader... will have a feeling of those things as strongly as if the writer had stated them'
• readers fell context and implication
• language triggers not feelings but images
• almost every word carries an emotional charge
• 'connotation and association mean that every word in a passage floats in a pool of meaning' p113
• one part of mind understand abstract denotation and another feels some of the emotion
• in hemingway feeling is resides within the text, in Fitzgerald it resides within the narrator's voice