A Study of Common and Differnetial Aspects of Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway and Sadeq Choobak

Sadeq Choobak is one of the founders of modern short story in Iran. In spite of his technical undulation, he has been an able and impressive writer in the history of Iranian story writing. Likewise, Ernest Hemingway’s role, in viewpoint of effect, in shaping short story as a serious artistic global form is undeniable. Choobak has written many of his short stories in Hemingway’s style and his traces are obvious in some of Choobak’s short stories. In addition, in his novel Tangsir, this impression is clear. But some of his writing features are mentally and technically different from Hemingway’s and in some points these differences manifest themselves completely.This article studies the similar and different aspects of Choobak’s writing style in comparison with Hemingway’s. A consideration and comparison of their stories have been done in both the themes and structures of the stories. The results show that Sadeq Choobak is the first Iranian writer who has imitated Hemingway’s style. Objectivism, the use of anti-heroes and the application of Hemingway’s special writing style are the main cases of similarity in the two writers’ works. However, one difference is that Choobak does not follow a single style; another is the use of evident and clear themes in Choobak’s stories. A final difference is his tendency to stories with psychologically superficial layers. These features are not observed in Hemingway’s stories.