Anonymous
11/6/2025, 3:19:17 PM
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I’m 38 yo male (surgery is on Tuesday) and I never knew much about Faulkner. I’ve been hearing about Hemingway propaganda since a kid and obviously did required reading on him in school.
I got into fiction recently and read Faulkner’s short stories on a whim. Caused me to read up on him because I was blown away. This is when I ran into the history of Faulkner and Hemingway and how they were both leading literary figures during their time but wrote radically different. There was some tension between them.
Made sense.
I just finished Hemingway short stories. Wasn’t really interested in comparing the two but I couldn’t get over how much Hemingway sucked.
I’ve known about his iceberg method of writing and how the alt right bros like Shane Gillis love him for being short and stoic but it just sounds pretentious and empty.
As soon as I read the barn fire story, I was gripped and full of questions. Those questions still linger. I’m not even a writer but it made rethink how to tell a story.
Hemingway doesn’t make me question anything. It’s not intriguing. I don’t want to explore his iceberg and what lays below. He thinks he’s some brave mysterious hero but it comes off as some dork in a fedora and a graphic tee drinking beer at a bar alone. Of course he was a manly man that went to war and boxed and all that but he seems really shallow.
I got into fiction recently and read Faulkner’s short stories on a whim. Caused me to read up on him because I was blown away. This is when I ran into the history of Faulkner and Hemingway and how they were both leading literary figures during their time but wrote radically different. There was some tension between them.
Made sense.
I just finished Hemingway short stories. Wasn’t really interested in comparing the two but I couldn’t get over how much Hemingway sucked.
I’ve known about his iceberg method of writing and how the alt right bros like Shane Gillis love him for being short and stoic but it just sounds pretentious and empty.
As soon as I read the barn fire story, I was gripped and full of questions. Those questions still linger. I’m not even a writer but it made rethink how to tell a story.
Hemingway doesn’t make me question anything. It’s not intriguing. I don’t want to explore his iceberg and what lays below. He thinks he’s some brave mysterious hero but it comes off as some dork in a fedora and a graphic tee drinking beer at a bar alone. Of course he was a manly man that went to war and boxed and all that but he seems really shallow.
