The sentence shares just enough information to explain what is happening without getting off track. "The Way It Was" states, "Hemingway always wrote slowly and revised carefully, cutting, eliding, substituting, experimenting with syntax to see what a sentence could most economically carry, and then throwing out all words that could be spared" (Baker 74). This proves that Hemingway paid great attention to syntax and did not use a lot of adjectives or unnecessary description to take away from the importance of what he wrote. Because Hemingway used the technique of avoiding unneeded language, what he did write was always meaningful. This, as well as how he used common words and basic concepts, shows how he was able to convey purpose.
Another aspect of Hemingway's style and technique is how he revealed purpose by using honest and truthful details. Again, as a news reporter, Hemingway learned that his writing should be an eye witness account, and he was taught to always tell the truth. Hemingway's writing in In Our Time is very truthful because he tended to write stories that developed around his own personal experiences. He wanted readers to feel as if they had been to the places that he wrote about, so he used a lot of great imagery and adjunct details from every angle of his stories. Often, Hemingway used figurative language such as metaphors and similes to create these details. "The Way It Was" states, "No other writer of our time had so fiercely asserted, so pugnaciously defended, or so consistently exemplified the writer's obligation to speak truly" (Baker 55). This quote really proves that Hemingway was honest with his writing. The document later states "Hemmingway has trained himself rigorously to see and retain those aspects of a place that make it that place, even though, with an odd skill, he manages at the same to render these aspects generically" (Baker 57).