Now that the rash of comments about Hemingway has abated, I’ll weigh in that his prose style was overrated. The sometimes glorious verbosity of the 19th century novel had faded and Hemingway’s application of journalistic concision to fiction was timely for modernism but hardly revolutionary. Faulkner, Dos Passos, Woolf, and others were more inventive stylists, as was Hemingway’s successor, Mailer. Stream of consciousness was immeasurably more important than the so-called iceberg approach. The main reason for the parodies of Hemingway’s style is it’s so basic.