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Posted by Smarty Pants on August 12, 19100 at 04:54:15:
In Reply to: Hemingway stuff posted by Babycakes on August 12, 19100 at 01:42:32:
Babycakes wrote,
" Oh you think you're so smart, Mr. Smarty Pants! Edmund Wilson says Hemingway could only have his accomplishments in short stories, because it was the situation that formed the story. You can't get away with that in a novel, and Hemingway was not able to do it in the novel. No character development. Why are you spreading this?"
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*Character* is a dimension of any story; plot another - and, I suppose, "situation" another. Each is the whole story, but from a different perspective. However poorly or well Hemingway or anyone writes a story, the dimension *character* exists there. (That is why I am "spreading" this.)
Perhaps you could clarify the issue by quoting at large from Edmund Wilson's remarks on this subject. It is not likely that you have construed him correctly on this point, for neither he nor any other thinking person would disagree with either my point above or the point made in my former posting; he is no fool - as your presentation here of his imputed position tends to make him.
S.P.