The Contrast between Fitzgeralds and Hemingways Writing StyleI. Introduction Fitzgerald and Hemingway were two of the most distinguished writers in American literature. They grew up in the same period and in the same social situation. Their works are the symbols of that age. On the writing style and narrative skills, Hemingway created the brief and concise style while Fitzgeralds style is smooth sensitive. They like two peals, which glittered in the 20th century literature circles.II. The writing styles of the writers2.1 Fitzgeralds writing styleFitzgeralds writing style was the symbol of an agethe1920s, or “the jazz age”, he became the “angel of the twenties” and he was thought to be the “laurel poet of jazz age”. Fitzgerald was part of the 1920s and eventually died of it. His greatness lies in the fact that he used his personal experience and created a myth of American life. The hollowness of American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor were portrayed by Fitzgeralds works. Some people said Fitzgerald was one of the great stylists in American literature. Fitzgeralds prose is smooth, sensitive, and completely original in its diction and metaphors. Its simplicity and gracefulness, its skill in manipulating the relation between the general and the specific, its bold impressionistic and colorful quality, in short, its competence convey the vision of the author all reveal Fitzgeralds consummate artistry (Hu Zhuanglin, A Survey of American Literature, p293). Fitzgerald not only portrayed the life of one generation. The words, which were created by him, have the important parts of contemporary English literature and English language.2.1 Hemingways writing styleHemingways books painted the image of a whole generationthe lost generation. There were a lot of comments on Hemingways writing style. However, all seem to agree on the simplicity and apparent naturalness of his prose, and its effect of directness, clarity and freshness. He developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone. This is true that Hemingway always managed to choose the words concrete, specific, more commonly found, more casual and conversational, and employed them often in syntax of short, simple sentence, which are orderly and patterned, and sometimes ungrammatical. Hemingways strength lays in short sentences and very specific details.III. The important reasons There are so many reasons big or small which caused the differences of Fitzgeralds and Hemingways writing style. In this part I will use 4 main parts to explain the important reasons that caused the differences between Fitzgerald and Hemingway. These reasons are social situation, the life style, the attitude toward the war and the personality.3.1 The social situationsThey lived in the world after the First World War, which was quite different is quite different from before. All the old things were gone, and everything was new. The disillusionment with the war, the new inventions, especially the new automobile changed the lives of the people. There was affluence and excitement on the one hand, and the other, disturbing indications that the old world was simply dying. Against the social background Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrote. Fitzgerald was an analyst. He stayed in the United States and wrote about the jazz age. Hemingway, on the other hand, he did not describe it. He went away to Europe and wrote about the expatriates. His world was basically rootless. It is Fitzgerald who was so broken emotionally by the failure of American dream. So they reacted differently to their times. Both were talented writers; both lost the ability to write rather early in their career. Hemingway was famous for his style and Fitzgerald for the fact that he tried to understand American culture at its roots and thus had more to say to the following generations.The social situation of that age was reflected respectively in Fitzgerald and Hemingways works. This Side of Paradise was the first novel of Fitzgerald. In this novel Fitzgerald successfully portrayed “a generation grow up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man shaken.” Fitzgerald true described the “the roaring” of the post-war boom years. This book became immensely popular for the simple reason that it caught the tone of the age. After that, Fitzgerald wrote several short stories, such as Flappers and Philosophers. Our countrys famous professor Chang Yaoxin in his book A Survey of American Literature said that, Fitzgeralds Tales of the Jazz Age which, like Mark Twain the gilded age, give its name to an important history period in the history of the country. The 1920s or “the jazz age”, was, in the words of Malcolm Crowley, “not so much a history period as a legend of glitter, of recklessness, and of talent in such profusion that it was snow broadcast like w