“The dancers did not want me to go out. Three of them were sitting on the high wine-cask beside Brett, teaching her to drink out of the wine-skins. They had hung a wreath of garlics around her neck. Some one [sic] insisted on giving her a glass. Somebody was teaching Bill a song. Singing it into his ear. Beating time on Bill’s back.”
-The Sun Also Rises, p 160
The Spanish know how to party, eh? Hemingway’s description of the fiesta is quite a crazy one. I noticed that Hemingway’s sentences are now all relatively short and choppy. Instead of lengthy descriptions of the events within the fiesta, he writes several quick, fast descriptions that jump from one happening to the next at a rapid pace. The sentence fragments particularly encourage a sense of overwhelmed senses. By describing events at allegro tempo, Hemingway creates a mood of carefree, unrestrained frivolity. This mood is continued for quite some time, indicating the length of the fiesta. After 150 pages or so of slow, laidback writing, Hemingway turns up the heat and, in doing so, turns up the mood as well.
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