The Artistic Features Of The Dialogue In Hemingway's Short Stories

Hemingway,whose short stories contribute a lot to worldwide modernism works,plays unusual emphasis on the employment of techniques of dialogues in his short stories.More and more scholars,who employ numerous techniques to experiment and research on the dialogues in Hemingway's short stories,discover its concise,implicit,active and vivid style.This thesis focuses on the study of artistic features of Hemingway's short stories from three perspectives of linguistic features,narrative features and thematic significance to explore its artistic effect and aesthetic values by taking two of Hemingway's short stories as examples to illustrate respectively.The structure of the thesis is arranged as follows:The first chapter narrates the linguistic features of the dialogue in Hemingway's short stories,which is not only embodied from its conciseness,but also reflected in its implicitness through the use of symbolism.The first chapter takes “A Day's Wait” and “A Clean,Well-lighted Place” as the examples to explore these two features.The second chapter witnesses the narrative features of the dialogue in Hemingway's short stories from two perspectives of narrative focalization and narrative time.From perspective of narrative focalization,the dialogues serve as the role to endow the plot with objectivity,to evoke readers to discover internal world of characters,and to maintain readers' enduring interest by taking “The Hills like White Elephant” as the example to illustrate.From perspective of narrative time,dialogues serve as the role to control the narrative speed and rhythm of the short story by taking “The Killers” as an example to illustrate.In the third chapter,the focus is on how Hemingway's dialogue reinforces its thematic significance through his linguistic and narrative techniques in the last two chapters.