"You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across--not to just depict life--or criticize it--but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as the beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe it. Things aren't that way. It is only by showing both sides--3 dimensions and if possible 4 that you can write the way I want to."--To his father, Clarence Hemingway.
That's the way it is. Even in journalism. For example: If you write about public figures, especially politicians, and you quote him or her making snide remarks against a political rival, you have to get the side of the latter and incorporate it in the news story. This is what we call balance in the genre.
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