Very Descriptive

The term local color is a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, and landscape. Hemingway does this very much. In his descriptions of Paris and the trip through Spain, he gets into very much detail about even the street names that Jake travels through. For example, in chapter 10 on page 99, a passage describes this term very well: "After a while we came out of the mountains, and there were trees along both sides of the road, and a stream and ripe fields of grain, and the road went on, very white and straight ahead...." This is only a small example of Hemingway's descriptiveness. However I think the purpose of this is to attempt to immerse the reader in the environment that Hemingway describes. For me, it got a little too descriptive. Because of this, I started to get lost making me not able to become immersed in the environment described. So for me, this style was a little ineffective.