 Because Twain was the one who said, look right here for literary value. Did Hemingway have a critique? Hemingway's critique was that after chapter 31, the book goes like this. He said, just cheating. And Hemingway wasn't the first, and he won't be the last person to believe that. Although there are some people who feel that the book has got its moral point in that last part. What was its impact in 1885 once it got published in the US? It wasn't a big hit.