The couple in Ernest Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants" faces a difficult situation‚ how to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. To further complicate the issue‚ it’s pretty clear that one partner wants to settle down and have the baby‚ while the other partner doesn’t. What we see in the story is a discussion of the matter in a train. Written in 1927 when sex education and discussion of birth control were federal crimes in the U.S.‚ the story also comments on what little was known about reproductive
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"Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway In his summary of "Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway‚ Paul Rankin comes to a few conclusions about the a young girl in the story. Using both Carl Jung and Karen Horney’s application of human behavior to buttress his opinion‚ Rankin comes to the conclusion that Jig was the superior actor and the unnamed American is the inferior actor in the play. The evidence Rankin uses to prove Jung’s theory is that the nature of the mans feelings
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HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS Hills Like White Elephants Abstract The Hills like White Elephants is primary a conversation between the American man and his girlfriend‚ neither of the speakers truely communicates with the other‚ highlighting the rift between the two. Both talk‚ but neither listens or understands the others point of view. Frustrated the man will say almost anything to convince his girlfriend to have the operation‚ which although never mentioned by name‚ is understood to be an
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as oppressed by society‚ as well as by the male influences in their lives. This era is especially interesting because it is a time in modern society when women were still treated as second-class citizens. Two interesting short stories‚ "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" focus on a woman’s plight near the turn of the nineteenth century. Both authors‚ Hemmingway and Gilman‚ leave an open end to the stories and allow readers to create their own ending‚ in turn causing them to take
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things to do. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ he shows the difficult decision some families must make with their child‚ abortion‚ through the symbolism of the hills “looking like white elephants” and also the that woman drinking alcohol although she is pregnant. To understand the symbolism of the comparison of the hills and the white elephant‚ the reader has to understand what a white elephant is. A white elephant is something that no one wants‚ something that is
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Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”‚ dialogue is used effectively in enhancing the atmosphere of the story. Although both have similar mood‚ the ways the authors present the dialogue are different‚ for in “The Veldt”‚ Bradbury includes many other setting descriptions. Whereas‚ “Hills Like White Elephants” is a story created purely with dialogue. Also‚ how the characters interact with each other is different. In “Hill’s Like White Elephants” the setting is
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Becoming a parent is something most people see in their future‚ however it often comes at the wrong time for some people. In Ernest Hemingway’s‚ “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ we see a couple’s conversation as it leads up to the decision they are making on whether or not to have an abortion. With the white elephants representing a metaphor for the unborn child‚ we are able to see the struggle of a couple trying to make a decision on whether to keep the child or not‚ through which it is apparent that
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The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” is about a couple that is located in Spain.They are having beer in front of a train station to take the train to Barcelona to Madrid.Throughout the story they argue about whether having the baby or having an abortion which is referenced as a surgery.The boyfriend doesn’t want her to have the baby he tells her that the surgery will be perfectly simple.He tries to persuade her that he knows a lot of people that have done the procedure.He thinks it’s the
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n Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants‚ set in Barcelona‚ Spain‚ a conversation takes place between two lovers sitting outside of a bar. Hemingway’s writing style is very minimalist‚ and so it is up to the reader to decipher what message‚ tone‚ or imagery is being conveyed. In this short story it is a hot day‚ there are train tracks nearby. The hot weather could have symbolized the tension between the woman‚ called Jig‚ and the American man- the train tracks their differing viewpoints. The
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Jgging Around the Issue: A “Hills like White Elephants” Literary Analysis Trying to decide on a course of action when faced with an unexpected pregnancy‚ an American and a girl sit outside a train stop in the dusty part of Spain and drink on it. Indirectly approaching the sensitive subject of abortion‚ each member of the couplehood sets out to test the other in a verbal battle of the wills‚ engaging in a staccato like dialogue that offers some insight into the two main character’s personas.
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