Sentence Length and Complexity in Ernest Hemingway's ''The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife''

Abstract

Stylistics is a field of linguistics that is specialized in analyzing literary works linguistically. It aims to find the uses and meanings of literary writings. The present paper aims at assessing Hemingway's "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" in terms of sentence length and complexity. Its main goal is to demonstrate how the use of linguistic structure inside any literary piece may be exploited as a technique for revealing hidden messages. Halliday's (1985) approach is used to analyze sentence length and complexity in this paper. The researchers discovered that varying the length and complexity of sentences helps to clarify the core themes. It is also concluded that the most dominant type of the sentences used in Hemingway' 'The Doctor and the Doctor's wife' is the simple one. Most of the simple sentences are short ones.