Ernest ’s tough, Terse prose and short, declarative sentences did more to change the style of written English that any other writing in the twentieth century. II. Ernest has had many great accomplishments in his historical life but just one event has hardly sticks out from the rest. The Old Man and the Sea is one of ’s most enduring works. Told in Language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here recasts, in strikingly contempor ....