Analysis of “Hills Like White Elephants” This essay will use new criticism to evaluate “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway in the areas of characters‚ symbolism‚ and conflict. I will mainly focus on two of the three characters. There will be many opportunities to comment on symbolism. Consideration will also be paid to the ongoing conflict between the American and the girl‚ sometimes referred to as Jig. The male protagonist is known only as the American in the story. He is
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“Hills like White Elephants” By Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway born in 1899‚ in Cicero‚ Illinois‚ served in World War 1‚ worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for writing four novels‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ A Farewell to Arms‚ For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ and The Old Man and the Sea‚ in 1954 he became a Nobel Prize winner. Hemingway was raised in the suburb of Chicago but he and his folks spent most of their time in Michigan. He
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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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The Themes of "Hills Like White Elephants" The theme of choices and consequences is expressed through the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" through the American and through Jig. The next theme is the theme of doubt and ambiguity which is sensed by the reader through both the American ’s doubts and Jig ’s doubts. The last is the theme of men and women in which Hemingway explores the way that men and women relate to each other. In "Hills Like White Elephants‚" Ernest Hemingway expresses three
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Written in the 1920s‚ when society was still chiefly patriarchal‚ Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants presents a short dialogue between a boyfriend and a girlfriend at a train station. It is written in Hemingway’s famous Iceberg Theory‚ revealing only what is necessary to complete the story while leaving much of the detail up to the reader’s imagination. The short story about an American man and his girlfriend opens with a short description of the setting. Set at a railroad crossing near
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In the short story hills like white elephants by ernest hemingway there is a strong use of symbolism. Some of the symbols are more obvious and some are more hidden beneath subtext. Alike to most novels the understanding is based entirely upon one’s personality and enjoyment. Most of the symbolism has to do with the female in the story hinting towards a pregnancy that she cannot decide whether she would like to keep or abort. She hints towards choosing two people out of her‚ the baby and her husband
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In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and David [Foster] Wallace’s “Good People”‚ both authors make the character’s speak and act ambiguously and use symbols and motifs in the story to influence the character’s decision about having an abortion or not. For example‚ the American in “Hills Like White Elephants” repeatedly says to the girl “if you don’t want to you don’t have to” implying that he doesn’t want her to and he’s being manipulative. I believe Hemingway is trying to say that communication
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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
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Hills Like White Elephants: Reaction Paper Throughout this school year‚ we analyzed and discussed several awesome poems‚ novels and stories. One that I particularly liked would have to be "Hill Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. The first thing about it that caught my attention would have to be its title‚ "Hills like White Elephants’. To be honest‚ I really thought that it’ll be about some elephants in Africa or something but I was wrong. There were no elephants! The story is
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that women have been defined by throughout history. Women refusing to assume the inferior position under men is how androcentric societies have since progressed towards a more gender-equal civilization. In the 1927 short story‚ "Hills Like White Elephants"‚ Ernest Hemingway illustrates the hardships and oppression most women in any patriarchal society face through careful diction and detailed depiction of feminist personalities. The oppression of females
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