Metacognition
Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner are two authors that have very different writing styles. Hemingway tends to have much more dialogue in his short stories. Like In A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, a story about an old man in a bar who had tried committing suicide. The waiters are discussing why he had tried to commit suicide and other things like that. On the other hand William Faulkner tends to go into a lot of incite when talking. In the his story A Rose For Emily, Faulkner goes into great dept and describes the every scene to the audience down to the very smell and it gives the reader an almost mysterious view of the story. These two authors have very different writing styles although they both are great writers.



I first began my process rereading both stories. After looking at the different prompts available I thought that the dialogue would be the easier of the prompts to do. To begin with I went through both stories and chose a topic that both of them seem to describe. That was death. Each other although very differently describes one scenario of death. I decided to write a conversation between Hemingway and Faulkner. Although in the dialogue Hemingway and Faulkner talk about the waiter. The main point of the dialogue is to discuss the waiter who had tried committing suicide much like what the old man had tried to do in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. In order to spice up the conversation I made sure to make one of the authors drunk. I chose Hemingway because his story takes place in a bar. So I thought it would be relevant that he would be drinking with Faulkner. I also talked about why the waiter had wanted to commit suicide. I said that it was because he had extremely bad body odor. Like in A Rose for Emily, The community was to embarrassed to confront Emily Rose about the stink that was coming from her house. I made sure to make the connection in the actual dialogue between the two authors. I had a little bit of trouble relating the two different topics into one but after rereading the stories over and over again it became easier just to grab lines and place them in a conversation that actually made sense. It was also time consuming because we ha to site every line and if the words where split up we had to sight them as well.



I felt as though this project was one of the easier ones we have had to do in a while. I had no peer editing comments because I had missed class the day we had to turn our first draft.