Essay On A Clean Well-Lighted Place By Ernest Hemingway

Comparison about Hemingway’s Short-Fiction Stories Ernest Hemingway is a well-known American author. He is known for his iceberg technique or also known as the iceberg theory. There might be a possibility that throughout our lives we have read some of Hemingway’s fiction stories through our high school and college years. His iceberg technique means that the immediate events have very little context or interpretation. That basically means that there is more to what you have to read, and in a way that makes Hemingway’s stories interesting to the reader. Although, “Hills Like White Elephants” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” have some differences, the conflict and dialogue plays an important part in making these short-fiction stories unique. First and foremost, Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants,” has two main characters which are Jing and the American. The setting is taken place in a train station bar in Spain. Hemingway has a decent amount of dialogue between Jig and the American while both of them are drinking. They are discussing a situation that is serious that both of them are facing. In paragraph 42 Hemingway stated, “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig.” The American is talking to jig and trying to convince her of doing the simple operation, which is an abortion. Kozikowsk stated that, “Hills are the white elephants for jig because they carry ambivalent evocations of the child within nor like a white elephant, an unwanted gift, a
The conflict might have been different such as discussing an abortion and how someone identifies loneliness with another person that is facing the same difficulty. Hemingway indefinite pronoun adds a more sophisticated use to make the sentences more complex to understand and worthy. The usage of symbolism also creates a big impact in Hemingway’s