Comparing 'Going For A Beer' By Robert Coover And Ernest Hemingway

Writers are very fascinating and eccentric people. The unmatched ways many authors write and all the complex stories they create make them unique. Robert Coover and Ernest Hemingway are two quite different authors, but both create very fantastic pieces. As both are different, they create vastly different pieces of work, what makes them so different is their word structure, the pace of the story, story themes, and meanings behind the stories. To start, Robert Coover’s, “Going for a Beer” uses a vastly different word structure than Ernest Hemingway’s “Elephants like white hills.” “Elephants like white hills” by Ernest Heming way is set in Barcelona with a man and a woman deciding on their future, while as in “Going for a Beer” by Robert Coover was set in a town with a man who find his life flashing before his eyes and regretting on his past mistakes. As these two stories had completely different themes, they used different word structures. In “Elephants like White hills,” Erenst hemming way used a method of not revealing many things about the characters in the story’s beginning plot and letting the audience develop their own opinions

The pace throughout the stories were completely different as in “Going for a Beer” by Robert Coover the pace of the story is fast as the man's life flashed before his eyes. He remembers going to the bar, then next thing you know he is a father and back at the bar again. He did this to create a better effect on the meaning of not wasting your life as it will flash before your eyes. But in “Elephants like white hill's,” Hemingway used a slower pace, throughout the entire story it takes place at the bar and about them contemplating making their decision on having an abortion or not. As Hemingway did this, he created a better plot that allowed the audience for a deeper interpretation. Both writers used different paces for their audience, and both paces had great effects on their