From the beginning to the end of Hemingway's long literary career his world is sparked with energy of reticence and silence. Hemingway's inarticulate characters do not serve as a compensation for grammatical irregularities, they represent a contempt for mere thought or speech. The article is trying to establish that Hemingway's inarticulate characters in "Our Time" serve to affirm the value of contact with the natural world and a commitment to the senses, while they disavow the controlling logic and assumptions of modern society. Silence represents the negative grace and the positive force, Hemingway also uses muteness to represent an alternative to the life-denying rhetoric of the community.
