Final Draft Hemingway Essay A good writer’s objective is to say as much as possible as briefly as possible. This enables the thinking about the implications of the word’s presented. Ernest Hemingway explained this idea in his “iceberg” theory of writing fiction in an interview for Paris Review: “ If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There are seven-eighths of it under …showed first 75 words of 532 total…

…showed last 75 words of 532 total…because he wants the woman to get an abortion. Meanwhile, the light side of the valley represents the woman because the woman is open to all suggestions and doesn’t really want to kill her baby. Hemingway, in his iceberg theory, writes only a proportion of what he actually means. By doing this, he allows the reader to think deeply about what the reader has read and the message Hemingway is sending to the reader.