*Research Scholar, Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
**Associate Professor, S.V. College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 4 September, 2013.
The contribution of Hemingway to the phenomenal development of fiction was by no means ordinary, although critical opinion, as it could be expected, has not been uniform in regarding the precise nature and extent of his influence on other writers of short stories as well as fiction among his immediate contemporaries and those of the newer generations. Extreme views apart, what seems certain is that Hemingway was a sort of ‘trail blazer’ who pioneered many changes in the art of the American fiction in theme, technique, form and content, and opened up for the writers of fiction in America, fresh possibilities in subject matter, narrative technique and style for introspective and intuitive exploration of the inner life of men and women of the present day.
