The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. ... Ernest Hemingway uses a literary style called the "Iceberg Theory" to convey only the information that he feels is pertinent, and leaves the rest to the reader to determine. ... Kafka's and Hemingway's works are similar in that they both stray from the grander narrative. ... Both Kafka and Hemingway exhibit, through their styles of...

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Biography Born in Clatskanie, Oregon, Raymond Carver in 1938, at the age of three with his parents moved to Yakima, Washington, where his father found a work as a sawmill worker. ... Writing Style Carver's writing style is said to be very much like Ernest Hemingway's, and that it's an example of minimalism (Hemingway being a master of minimalism). ...

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