Text 1: Critic Wallace argues that Hemingway's famously sparse prose reflects a moral discipline. By stripping language of ornament, Hemingway forced readers to feel the weight of what was unsaid — the "iceberg" of meaning beneath the visible sentence. Less is more, in this reading, because restraint demands attention.
Text 2: Critic Banerjee accepts that Hemingway's restraint produces powerful effects but worries about its costs. The same technique that creates resonance also flattens psychology and limits the kinds of interior life the prose can render. What reads as moral discipline, Banerjee suggests, can also read as evasion — a refusal to engage feelings that more expansive writers explore directly.
The authors most clearly disagree about
- A
whether Hemingway's prose is sparse.
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whether Hemingway's restraint should be evaluated as a virtue.
- C
whether the iceberg theory is a useful metaphor for the prose.
- D
whether Hemingway is a major writer.
Explanation
Both critics accept Hemingway's sparseness and its powerful effects. They differ on whether to evaluate it as moral discipline or evasion. C captures the evaluative disagreement.