Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war
in Libya and wore two wound-stripes. He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there. What effect does Hemingway's limited use of adjectives have?
This excerpt shows how a very limited use of adjectives provoke a clinical and emotionless description of an event that the narrator brings forward as if he´s describing a recepy for apple pie. As if everyone involved ignores the fact that they can get killed...
