Hills Like White Elephants Romanticism Analysis

Hemingway's short story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” has realistic, modernist, and postmodern elements. A conversation on a train system between two individuals, primarily about something while drinking beer while discussing the scenery around them is realistic. A great example of the type of dialogue and description is, “‘What should we drink?’ the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table,” (Hemingway 1). This type of writing is not overly descriptive of everything. Such as when romantic writers wrote about how nature impacted them. This is realistic because it is straightforward and to the point that this happened. Then, on page 3 Hemingway writes, “Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the