novels
Explanation
This comic contrasts the writing styles of Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway. The Austen panel shows an absurdly convoluted sentence describing "Constance's character number 412, one of the most whose sister-in-law's cousin was first left abandoned on the front step..." -- a parody of Austen's elaborate social relationship descriptions. The Hemingway panel simply reads: "There was a man trying to get a fish." When asked "Why do you like Hemingway novels so much?" the character responds "Because I am an introvert." The joke is that introverts prefer Hemingway's famously terse, minimalist prose over Austen's dense web of social relationships and elaborate character introductions, because keeping track of vast social networks is exhausting for introverts while Hemingway's solitary man-vs-nature stories are much more their speed.