Abstract
These research notes are part of a study that aims to systematically and structurally elucidate the literary style of Ernest Hemingway from the perspective of linguistic stylistics. This time, the author focused on the body language in “A Simple Enquiry” （1927）, a short story which has homosexuality implied in it. It was found that Hemingway uses in particular body-part nouns and visual verbs to implicitly depict the characters’ sexuality and psychological state.
