Simplicity over Detail

I am reading Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises this quarter for my outside reading book. The storyline is fairly interesting so far and seems to be revolving around the main character, who speaks in first person, and his friend Robert Cohn as he retells what must be a dramatic life full of complications with women that he and Robert have experienced. In blog however I'm not going to focus on the plot of the book, but rather the style of writing Hemingway has, and how he describes his characters, setting, and basic scenes using it. Ernest Hemingway uses an extremely simplistic style of writing. To compare I have looked at the style of writing used by the author of Billy Budd, a novella we recently read in English class, Herman Melville. Instead of simple writing Melville uses a more detailed and drawn out technique.
Herman Melville is a romantic writer whose style is exceedingly exact, giving attention to every detail necessary in providing a clear image of the setting, characters, and plot of books he has written. This style is common in romantic writing and is used to enhance the often fantastical ideas incorporated in romantic stories. Reading Billy Budd in class was sometimes difficult because of the incredible amount of detail when simply talking about an area of the ship or the feelings expressed by a certain sailor. This style is remarkably different from Ernest Hemingway's genre and techniques, which were lesser in general. Hemingway used simple, short sentences to explain his characters and setting and these methods produce the same level of understanding and imagery that Melville's writing does. These contrasting styles are vastly different but they produce the same quality of literature, just in different ways.