Hemingway's style was influenced by his years as a newspaper reporter, both before and after World War I. ... This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words by war"."... He absorbed the objective, fact-based writing style of the newspaper article and made it his own, applying the lessons from the Kansas City Star's style guide to all of his subsequent work. "It was a...

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