It makes the reader decide for themselves.
Hemingway thought to many adjectives would force the how to feel about things.
Because of how money was tight employees were being layed off and fired which lead people to start spending less and because of that businesses had to close so everyone would feel the affect of the grate depression.
An infinitive is the word "to" plus a verb so if you see that in a sentence its probably an.infinitive (I'll give an example below)
Ex: Renee suprised her sister to scare her.
-The infinitive would be "to scare" because it could be mistaken as a verb but the actual verb is "surprised"
Hope that helped!