sentences:  In addition Chandler notes that Potter's economic use of prose presages modernism, comparing her writing to that of Ernest Hemingway.Ruth K. MacDonald, English and children's literature professor at New Mexico State University, agrees, writing in "Beatrix Potter" that "Miss Moppet" demonstrates Potter's ability to pare text and illustrations to essentials noting that she worked best with more complicated plots, more complicated characters, and stories with specific settings rather than generalized backgrounds.