Hemingway's Silence: When Less is More
- Take a cue from literary legend Ernest Hemingway, who mastered the art of understatement. In "The Old Man and the Sea," he deliberately withholds exclamation points, allowing readers to feel the emotional weight without explicit cues.
- The exclamation point falls flat. All the expectation and excitement rushing into the uplifting mark, and then—nothing. (See image above for reference). The marling keeps on swimming for another 100 pages.
- In the digital age, this approach prompts us to ponder whether restraint can be just as impactful as exclamation point extravagance.
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The exclamation point attracts enormous (and undue) amounts of flak for its unabashed claim to presence in the name of emotion which some unkind souls interpret as egotistical attention-seeking.
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