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The Contrast between Fitzgerald’s and Hemingway’s Writing Style
I. Introduction
Fitzgerald and Hemingway were two of the most distinguished writers in American literature. They grew up in the same period and in the same social situation. Their works are the symbols of that age. On the writing style and narrative skills, Hemingway created the brief and concise style while Fitzgerald’s style is smooth sensitive. They like two peals, which glittered in the 20th century literature circles.

II. The writing styles of the writers
Fitzgerald’s writing style
Fitzgerald’s writing style was the symbol of an age—the1920s, or “the jazz age”, he became the “angel of the twenties” and he was thought to be the “laurel poet of jazz age”. Fitzgerald was part of the 1920s and eventually died of it. His greatness lies in the fact that he used his personal experience and created a myth of American life. The hollowness of American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor were portrayed by Fitzgerald’s works. Some people said Fitzgerald was one of the great stylists in American literature. Fitzgerald’s prose is smooth, sensitive, pletely original in its diction and metaphors. Its simplicity and gracefulness, its skill in manipulating the relation between the general and the specific, its bold impressionistic and colorful quality, in short, petence convey the vision of the author all reveal Fitzgerald’s consummate artistry (Hu Zhuanglin, A Survey of American Literature, p293). Fitzgerald not only portrayed the life of one generation. The words, which were created by him, have the important parts of contemporary English literature and English language.
Hemingway’s writing style
Hemingway’s books painted the image of a whole generation—the lost generation. There were a lot ments on Hemingway’s writing style. However, all seem to agree on the simplicity and apparent naturalness of his prose, and its effect of directness, clarity and freshness. He