Compare and Contrast of Two American Writers Hemingway and Faulkner

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sy or that he seemed intoxicated, he simply meant he was drunk. Hemingway uses the Spanish word for nothing, “nada” (Faulkner 145) to substitute words from the Lord’s prayer, in the old waiter’s speech of despair and loneliness to interrelate the theme. Building a sympathetic feeling from the reader toward the character’s way of seeing his lonely world as nothing, was Hemingway’s intention in doing so.
In comparison to Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner’s use of diction involves more complicated words due to the fact they’re slang and misspelled. Some misspelled words and slang are “kin...hisn...[and] hit” (Faulkner 145) which stand for the words can, his, and it. The reason for the use of a southern accent as diction is to set the mood of where the story takes place. Racist slurs such as “nigger” (Faulkner 146) also make up the diction of the story. Such racist slurs are used to build a certain attitude toward the character who says them. Faulkner describes Abner’s walk as “stiffly” (Faulkner 146) which also affects the reader’s feelings about a character. Sarty uses the word “bovine” (Faulkner 152) to describe his fat sisters. For many readers who are ...