Meta Paper on Faulkner

This assignment was very creative and took good imagination. The assignment was to choose a story from either Faulkner or Hemingway and re-write it as Faulkner if it was from Hemingway or re-write it as Hemingway if it was from Faulkner. I chose to re-write A Clean, Well-Lighted Place as Faulkner, because it was a sort of short story by Hemingway but I feel if Faulkner wrote it he could have made it a lot longer with much more detail.

To start off, I opened the story with much detail in describing the setting and the old man, because I feel Faulkner would have done the same. Then I took pieces of the story by Hemingway and pieced them together to make the story seem shorter but with much more detail as Faulkner would have done. While writing this short story, I used some time and describing scenes in detail as well as the characters. I also used dialogue a lot in order for the readers to get a better feel for the characters as Faulkner does in his stories.

The story by Hemingway wasn’t in much detail and I feel he should have added more so that the reader could find out more about the characters, especially the old man. After re-writing Hemingway as Faulkner, I used comments to comment what I did to mimic Faulkner’s writing style. The comments were a good idea, because it lets me know what I did just in case I forget, or if anyone asks, it’s written there for them. One last thing I did in this re-write was use characterization to describe the characters. The old man was the one I focused on more throughout the writing, because he was the main character. Faulkner uses much characterization in his short story A Rose for Emily, so much that I felt I knew the characters and thought I was there in the small town.