The journey to address the couple’s white elephant is a long and tribulating path. “The Hills like White Elephants” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The narrator puts emphasis on the fact that the couple does not get along. This makes the audience feel uncomfortable which‚ in turn‚ shifts the focus from the problem at hand to their relationship struggles. In "Hills like White Elephants‚" the narrator portrays the couple as one that is constantly fighting. As a result‚ their bickering
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Three’s a Crowd: A Summary of an Analysis on “Hills Like White Elephants” The article “Moving to the girl’s side of “Hills Like White Elephants.” by Stanley Renner‚ appears in The Hemingway Review. Renner leads a solid argument that the girl may have not aborted the child. The following is a summary of his analysis. At first‚ the girl is sitting with “the American” on the side of the station that is out in the sun where the land is described as having “no shade and no trees” and is “brown
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Ernest Hemingway’s story "Hills Like White Elephants" revolves around a conversation with a man and a girl at a train station while they are waiting for their next train. The man and girl fall in love and they travel unchaperoned. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair indirectly discusses an operation that is inferred to be an abortion. It’s illegal‚ so girl will find someone from the street to do‚ thereby endangering her life and future fertility. The story describes a
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of literature‚ characters who love one another or share a friendship often face obstacles to their relationships. Sometimes the characters overcome the obstacle; sometimes the characters are defeated by the obstacle. In the short story “Hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway the two main characters; the girl and the American‚ aren’t quite in love but are in some sort of relationship dealing with a big obstacle of whether or not the girl should have the operation. Throughout this short
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figurative language‚ hills like white elephants representing Jig’s possibly unwanted pregnancy. These hills became the main subject of the story‚ “The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. ‘They look like white elephants‚’ she said” (Hemingway 563). A white elephant is a costly and useless item in which a person cannot dispose of‚ which means that Jig was questioning her desire to keep her baby. However‚ later it seems like she changed her
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Ernest Hemmingway tells the story "Hills like White Elephants" nearly through pure dialog about two lovers conflicted over a serious decision. As the story progresses and through their tight conversation he reveals to us a great deal about their personalities‚ but leaves the details of the relationship between the two hidden. He gives his audience just enough information to find out the details of his story through detective work instead of coming outright by writing "Their relationship has suffered
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“Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story that begins with a man and his girlfriend waiting for a train in Spain. They drink alcoholic beverages and speak about an unnamed operation. As one reads further into the story‚ it becomes evident that the operation being discussed is an abortion. The man is trying his best to persuade his lover to abort their unborn child‚ but she is uncertain about what she ought to do. The girl‚ called Jig by her lover‚ is torn between a moral responsibility to her
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The dictionary defines “white elephant” as “a property requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit.” (Merriam Webster) It is clear that anyone who has a white elephant in their lives wishes to be rid of it. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a story that describes the conflict that arises from a white elephant‚ in this case‚ an unborn child. The father of the child‚ the American‚ wishes for the mother of the child‚ Jig‚ to have an abortion. The ending does not specify
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The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” present the readers with a variety of themes. With an array of themes to interrupt the most common theme of the short story written by Ernest Hemingway‚ is choices and consequences. Choices and consequences is the main theme that most readers seem to miss due to the lack of the understanding of the writing style of Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway writing style is unusual from many writers because unlike most writes the meaning of the story is not given away
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The poem that I have chosen to talk about is called the hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway. The setting takes place in the early 1920s where an American man and a girl are waiting at railway station so that they can take an express train and travel to Madrid. The author expresses in the poem how it is summer hot day in Madrid that correlates with “were white in the sun.” The author does not give the readers enough information about the “operation” nor the relationship between the American
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