Personification

pg 158 "the banner danced up and down with them as they came down surrounded by the crowd." Hemingway uses personificatiion to describe the banner as dancing while it blows in the wind.I believe he did thisto help the reader visualize the sense of chaos and excitement that was taking place at the time. It was in the midst of the fiesta where everything was crazy.People are dancingup and down the streets, and fireworks are being set off. Hemingway does a good job of helping the reader visualize this "party scene". Within the same page Hemingway goes on tosay that even when it was quiet "You had to shout any remark to make it heard." Its hard to imagine such an atmosphere lasting for seven days and seven nights, but with the authors detail and description, it becomes much easier.