The Torrents of Spring hold a unique place in Hemingway's work because it is a hilarious farce. Written with simple, short sentences and repetitions of words and phrases that enhance the comedic element, The Torrents of Spring supposedly narrates the romantic and other adventures of two workers in a pump factory in a small northern town, Petoskey, but essentially parodies Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter, while simultaneously brimming with satirical references to John Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, and others. If Hemingway had proven with his works that he was clearly one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, in The Torrents of Spring he also proves to be a great humorist.